Aunt Clara Brown
Official Pioneer
From the Series On My Own Biography
As a successful former slave, Clara Brown used her money to help other freed slaves get a new start in life. In 1859 Clara bought her own freedom and headed west to Colorado to find her daughter, who was sold when she was just a little girl. Clara didn’t find her daughter there, but she did get rich. The people she helped became her family, and she became known as “Aunt” Clara Brown.
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978-1-57505-416-2
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978-0-8225-8924-2
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$28.99 |
| Interest Level | Grade 2 - Grade 4 |
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| Reading Level | Grade 3 |
| Category | 5 Kinds of Nonfiction, 5KN: Narrative Nonfiction, Diverse Books: Race & Ethnicity, Diverse Books: Social Class, Diverse Books: Social Justice, Diversity |
| Copyright | 1999 |
| Publisher | Lerner Publishing Group |
| Brand | On My Own Books |
| Imprint | First Avenue Editions ™, Millbrook Press ™ |
| Language | English |
| Number of Pages | 48 |
| Publication Date | 2000-01-01 |
| Reading Counts! Level | 3.1 |
| Text Type | Narrative Nonfiction |
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| BISACS | JNF007110, JNF007020, JNF007120 |
| Dewey | 978.8'00496073'0092 |
| Graphics | Full-color illustrations |
| Dimensions | 5.875 x 8.5 |
| Lexile | 610 |
| Guided Reading Level | P |
| ATOS Reading Level | 3.5 |
| Accelerated Reader® Quiz | 34807 |
| Accelerated Reader® Points | 0.5 |
| Features | Afterword, Awards, Reviewed, Starred Reviews, Teaching Guides, Timeline, and eSource |
Author: Linda Lowery
Linda Lowery is an award-winning author of more than 60 fiction and nonfiction books for readers from preschool to middle grade. She currently lives in Tennessee.
Illustrator: Janice Lee Porter
Janice Lee Porter was born and raised in Chicago. She has a BFA in painting from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from California State University, Chico. She is the illustrator of over two dozen children’s books and is an art faculty member at Shasta College in Redding, California, where she teaches painting and drawing. She lives in Chico, California.
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On My Own Biography
Engage readers’ interest and imagination! These award-winning biographies feature full-page illustrations. Written in story format, each book features pivotal episodes that reveal what kind of person the subject is (or was) and how he or she came to be famous. View available downloads →
Awards
- American Bookseller Kids' Pick of the Lists
- Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- School Library Journal Best Book