Summary
A brief biography of Samuel Adams, describing his activities in stirring up the British and how he was finally persuaded to learn to ride a horse. Full description
Summary: |
A brief biography of Samuel Adams, describing his activities in stirring up the British and how he was finally persuaded to learn to ride a horse. |
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Item Description: |
"PaperStar." "A PaperStar book"--P. [4] of cover. |
Physical Description: |
47 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm. |
ISBN: |
0399234012 (hardcover) 9780399234019 (hardcover) 0698114167 (pbk.) 9780698114166 (pbk.) |
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) |