# Carver: A Life in Poems - Hardcover

by **Marilyn Nelson** (Author)

**Newbery Honor Book**  
**National Book Award finalist**  
**Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book**  
**Boston Globe-Horn Book Award**  
**Flora Stieglitz Straus Award**

**Beautiful verse explores agricultural scientist George Washington Carver's life and many achievements, from his work as a botanist and inventor to his unsung gifts as a painter, musician, and teacher.**

George Washington Carver was determined to help the people he loved. Born a slave in Missouri, he left home in search of an education, eventually earning his master's degree. When Booker T. Washington invited Carver to start the agricultural department at the all-black-staffed Tuskegee Institute, Carver truly found his calling. He spent the rest of his life seeking solutions to the poverty among landless Black farmers by developing new uses for soil-replenishing crops such as peanuts, cowpeas, and sweet potatoes. This STEAM biography reveals Carver's complex and profoundly devout life.

### Author Biography

Marilyn Nelson is a professor of English at the University of Connecticut and lives in Storrs, CT.

**Number of Pages:** 112

**Dimensions:** 0.53 x 9.36 x 6.36 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** May 01, 2001

**Award:** Newbery Medal (2002)

**Award:** Coretta Scott King Award (2002)

**Award:** Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards (2001)

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** Carver: A Life in Poems

**Interest Level:** Upper Grades, 9-12

**Reading Level:** 5.9

**Point Value:** 1

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