Summary
A biography of the first signer of the Declaration of Independence outlining all that he did for himself as well as what he did for Massachusetts and his new nation. Full description
Summary: |
A biography of the first signer of the Declaration of Independence outlining all that he did for himself as well as what he did for Massachusetts and his new nation. |
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Item Description: |
Originally published: Coward-McCann, 1976. |
Physical Description: |
47 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm. |
ISBN: |
069811440X (pbk.) 9780698114401 (pbk.) 0399233067 (hbk.) 9780399233067 (hbk.) |
Author Notes: |
Homesick: My Own Story, a collection of linked narratives, traces her life from her girlhood in China to her longed-for yet uneasy passage to America. It won a National Book Award and was named a Newbery Honor Book. She received the Regina Medal by the Catholic Library Association, the National Humanities Medal, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award and the Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile Literature for her body of work. She died on May 14, 2017 at the age of 101. (Bowker Author Biography) |