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horrisbg's review against another edition
3.0
Historical Fiction, for grades four and above. This book has beautiful illustrations that really take the reader to the place and time of the story. I could not get over how beautiful the pictures were!
aprilthelibrarian's review against another edition
4.0
Interesting woman and family, and lovely pictures. Make sure to read the note about her grandson in the back.
anellawrites's review against another edition
5.0
Molly Walsh Bannaky was quite a woman. Strong, brave and free of prejudices, we could all stand to be a lot more like her.
claudiaswisher's review against another edition
4.0
A fascinating story of an English servant convicted and sentenced as an indentured servant in America. She works hard and makes an unexpected success of herself. She buys a slave with the intention of freeing him. She freed him and married him. Their grandson was Benjamin Banneker, a renowned scientist and surveyor.
This is an utterly amazing story. But because of the children's book format, huge chunks of Molly's story has to be glossed over. Now I need to find an adult biography.
According to my research, early biographies of Banneker did not include the story of a white grandmother. More and more interesting.
This is an utterly amazing story. But because of the children's book format, huge chunks of Molly's story has to be glossed over. Now I need to find an adult biography.
According to my research, early biographies of Banneker did not include the story of a white grandmother. More and more interesting.
dwebster1031's review against another edition
2.0
A story about racial oppression that whitewashes over all of the racial oppression
bibliocyclist's review
3.0
The not-widely-known story of Benjamin Banneker's grandparents: a white, indentured servant woman sent from England for her "crime" and the African slave who helped her survive and with whom she fell in love. Gr. 3-7.
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