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"Get ready to have your mind blown with this fun book." - The Washington Post
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball legend and the NBA's all-time leading scorer, champions a lineup of little-known African-American inventors in this lively, kid-friendly book. Offering profiles with fast facts and framed by a funny contemporary story featuring two feisty twins, here is a tribute to black inventors whose ingenuity and perseverance against great odds made our world safer, better, and brighter.
Back matter includes an authors' note and sources.
| ISBN: | 9780763664428 |
| Publication date: | 10th December 2013 |
| Author: | Kareem AbdulJabbar, Raymond Obstfeld |
| Illustrator: | Ben Boos, AG Ford |
| Publisher: | Candlewick Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 96 pages |
| Genres: |
Children’s / Teenage: General interest Children’s / Teenage general interest: Inventors, inventions and experiments Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography Science |