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Shoes for everyone : a story about Jan Matzeliger

Mitchell, Barbara 1941- (Author). Mitchell, Hetty (illustrator.).

Summary: 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.

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  • ISBN: 0876142900
  • Physical Description: 63 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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  • Publisher: Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, [1986]

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Target Audience Note:
840L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.7 1 4374.

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