Publisher's Synopsis
Book selection by the American Youth Library Association. It's never too late to study as a shortlist for outstanding children's books from the American Children's Library Service! What was it like to learn to read for the first time at the age of 114? Mary, the oldest student in the United States. Grandma Walker shares with you a new chapter in a hundred-year-old life opened by reading. Parents and children aged 4 to 8 read together, read by themselves over 8 years old. No phonetic notation. In 1848, Mary Walker was born as a slave. She was free when she was 15 years old. Married at the age of 20 and had her first child
