Shoes for Everyone: A Story About Jan Matzeliger
by Mitchell, Barbara
Series:Carolrhoda Creative Minds
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AR Book Level
5.7
AR Points
1
Word Count
6,306
Interest Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Genre
Nonfiction
AR Quiz #
4374 EN
About this book
This is a biography of the half-Dutch/half-black Surinamese man who, despite the hardships and prejudice he found in his new Massachusetts home, invented a shoe-lasting machine that revolutionized the shoe industry in the late nineteenth century.