Maritcha

A Nineteenth-Century American Girl

Author: Tonya Bolden
ISBN: 9780375827976

This Coretta Scott King Honor Book provides a much-needed window into a little-documented time in black history. The poignant story, based on the memoir of Maritcha Rémond Lyons, shows what it was like to be a black child born free and living in New York City in the mid-1800s.

Publisher: Abrams
Publish Date: 2015-06-12

Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / People & Places / United States / African American, Juvenile Nonfiction / History / United States / 19th Century, Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Women

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Visual/Performing Arts)