Lovely, realistic paintings accompany this heartbreaking but hopeful telling

Author: Katheryn Lasky

Illustrator: Paul Lee

Format: Paperback

Published: Candlewick Press, 2003

Striking, realistic paintings accompany this heartbreaking but hopeful telling of Phillis Wheatley?s life. Kidnapped and transported across the ocean while still a small child, Phillis was purchased by a Boston family who unexpectedly taught her to read and write. She was treated as less slave than project and eventually was freed by her owners. She became the first black woman poet published in America. The fascinating biography is skillfully told and includes excerpts of Wheatley's poems.