2018
First Published
4.46
Average Rating
48
Number of Pages
From author Gary D. Schmidt comes a picture book biography of a giant in the struggle for civil rights. Sojourner Truth was born into slavery but possessed a mind and a vision that knew no bounds. So Tall Within traces her life from her childhood through her emancipation to her leadership in the movement for rights for both women and African Americans.
Avg Rating
4.46
Number of Ratings
740
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Author
Gary D. Schmidt
Author · 31 books
Gary D. Schmidt is an American children's writer of nonfiction books and young adult novels, including two Newbery Honor books. He lives on a farm in Alto, Michigan,with his wife and six children, where he splits wood, plants gardens, writes, feeds the wild cats that drop by and wishes that sometimes the sea breeze came that far inland. He is a Professor of English at Calvin College.
