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When Harriet Met Sojourner
By Clinton, Catherine & Evans, Shane
- ISBN
- 978-0-06050-425-0
- Publisher
- New York : Katherine Tegen Books, c2007.
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 2008
Gr 3-7 This powerful picture book relates the lives of Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth on alternating pages, leading up to the women's meeting in Boston in 1864. Many parallels are drawn between these two legendary figures born about 25 years apart and in different areas of the country. Compellingly told with a sure storyteller's cadence, Clinton's chronicle does not spare readers the harshness of the subjects' young years; they suffered beatings, witnessed siblings and family members sold away, endured hard labor, and riske...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2007
The lyrical, descriptive narrative tells, in parallel, biographical information about Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth. Despite the book's ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
