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Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman

Conductor on the Underground Railroad

by Ann Petry
Paperback
Publication Date: 02/01/2018

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This quintessential middle grade biography of Harriet Tubman now features a cover by NAACP Image Award winner and Caldecott Honor illustrator Kadir Nelson, a foreword by National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds, and additional new material. A selection of the Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List.

Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad was praised by the New Yorker as "an evocative portrait," and by the Chicago Tribune as "superb." It is a gripping and accessible portrait of the heroic woman who guided more than 300 enslaved people to freedom.

Harriet Tubman was born in slavery and dreamed of being free. She was willing to risk everything--including her own life--to see that dream come true. After her daring escape, Harriet became a conductor on the secret Underground Railroad, helping others make the dangerous journey to freedom.

This award-winning introduction to the late abolitionist, which was named an ALA Notable Book and a New York Times Outstanding Book, includes additional educational back matter such as a timeline, discussion questions, and extension activities.

ISBN:
9780062668264
9780062668264
Category:
People & places (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
02-01-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
193.55x130.05x13.72mm
Weight:
0.18kg
Ann Petry

Ann Petry (1908-1997), novelist and writer of short stories and books for young people, was one of America's most distinguished authors. Petry began by studying pharmacy, and in 1934 received her Ph.G. from the Connecticut College of Pharmacy. She worked as a licenced pharmacist in Saybrook and in Old Lyme, and during these years wrote several short stories.

When she married George David Petry in 1938, the course of her life changed. They lived in New York City, and Ann went to work for the Amsterdam News in Harlem. By 1941, she was covering general news stories and editing the women's pages of the People's Voice, also in Harlem. Her first published story appeared in 1943 in the Crisis, a magazine published by the NAACP.

She then began on her first novel, The Street, which was published in 1946 and for which she received the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship. Petry wrote two more novels, The Country Place and The Narrows, and numerous short stories, articles and children's books.

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