Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl By: Tonya Bolden
Non-Fiction: Biography 43 pages 4th grade reading level copyright 2005
This is a book on a free African American girl that was born in 1848 in New York City. It received the Coretta Scott King Award. And is written mainly about her life as a child using the unpublished memoir that she wrote shortly before her death. It was an interesting look at an amazing life; however, it was really much too short. But, this could be useful in getting a child that is not into reading to learn more about history as it is not only short but also has large pictures from that time or representive of that time on most pages.
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