The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read -- Rita Lorraine Hubbard, Hardcover

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The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read -- Rita Lorraine Hubbard, HardcoverImagine learning to read at the age of 116! Discover the true story of Mary Walker, the nation's oldest student who did just that, in this picture book from a Caldecott Honor winning illustrator and a rising star author. One of Slate's 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years In 1848, Mary Walker was born into slavery. At age 15, she was freed, and by age 20, she was married and had her first child. By age 68, she had worked numerous jobs,

Harjo recounts a luminous journey of becoming

unable to face her family or friends

She doesn't know SIT

Addie knows it's finally time to go home again

When it comes to the development of technology systems

that lifestyle changes can often reverse--undo

She traces this loneliness to an inability to feel truly safe with others and a historic hyperawareness stemming from the effects of slavery

with more to come

interpretive analyses

Their text is accompanied by iconic images

and this stands as some of his best work

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