Uncommonly smart, uncommonly strange, Hannah is determined to become a successIn the one-room schoolhouse at Chadds Ford, Hannah Bennett is a sensation. She is a whiz at mathso adept that she teaches the other studentsbut in reading, she is a flop. Give her a piece of poetry and she can tell you how many As, how many Es, how many Rs there are in itbut she cannot read a word. Her talent is amazing, but in this small town during the Great Depression, people think that girls will only use math for household budgeting.All at once, everything changes for Hannah when she is invited to study math in the big city of Philadelphia. This illiterate farm girl will undertake the adventure of a lifetime, in hopes of winning a university scholarship. As long as she stays true to herself, there is nothingnot reading, writing, or the city of Philadelphiathat is beyond Hannah's reach.This ebook features a personal history by Adele Griffin including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author's own collection.
| ISBN: | 9781453297353 |
| Publication date: | 12th February 2013 |
| Author: | Griffin, Adele |
| Publisher: | Open Road Media |
| Format: | Ebook (Epub) |