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Michelle Jovin, M.A.

Publishing Credits

Rachelle Cracchiolo, M.S.Ed., Publisher

Conni Medina, M.A.Ed., Managing Editor

Nika Fabienke, Ed.D., Series Developer

June Kikuchi, Content Director

Michelle Jovin, M.A., Assistant Editor

Lee Aucoin, Senior Graphic Designer

TIME F OR K IDS and the TIME F OR K IDS logo are registered trademarks of TIME

Inc. Used under license.

Image Credits: Cover, p.1 George Washington Carver National Monument;

p.45 Library of Congress; p.67 George Washington Carver National

Monument ; p.7 Don Smetzer/Alamy; p.89 Northwind Picture Archives,

p.1011 Ed Vebell/Getty Images; p.12 Sarin Images/Granger; p.19 Sarin

Images/Grange; p.22 Granger; p.27 Granger; p.27 State Historical Society

of Missouri; p.2223 Kansas Historical Society; all other images from iStock

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Jovin, Michelle, author.

Title: Fantastic kids : George Washington Carver / Michelle Jovin (M.A.).

Other titles: George Washington Carver

Description: Huntington Beach, CA : Teacher Created Materials, 2017.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017017014 (print) | LCCN 2017018623 (ebook) | ISBN

9781425853358 (eBook) | ISBN 9781425849610 (pbk.)

Subjects: LCSH: Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943--Juvenile literature. |

Agriculturists--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.

Classification: LCC S417.C3 (ebook) | LCC S417.C3 J68 2017 (print) | DDC

630.92 [B] --dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017017014

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Table of Contents

Plants and Peanuts

George Washington Carver

made the peanut popular. But

he did much more than that.

George had a hard life as a

child. But, he did not let that

stop him. Young George worked

hard to learn as much as he

could. When he grew up, he

taught other people about plants.

He even helped save the country

when food was scarce ! Georges

knowledge of plants made him

a hero. This is his story.

George Washington Carver

George Saves the Farms!

When George grew up, he taught people

about crop rotation . He told farmers to

plant peanuts and sweet potatoes for one

year instead of their normal crops. This

gave the soil time to get healthy again.

His plan worked! Crop rotation is still

used by farmers around the world today.

Early Life

No one knows for sure when

George was born. But most

people think it was near 1861.

His parents were enslaved . A

man named Moses Carver

forced them to work on his

farm in Missouri. Sadly, just

before George was born, his

father died.

Kidnapped!

When George was just

one week old, a group of

men came to the farm.

The group kidnapped him

and his mother!

Moses Carver owned

George as a child.

His home is now

a museum.

Not Known

Most enslaved people were not allowed

to read. As a result, they did not know

in what year they were born. Also, no

one kept records of when babies of

enslaved people were born.

The kidnappers sold baby

George and his mother to

another family. Back at the

farm, Moses hired a man to

track them down.

After a while, the man

found George. He had been

left on the side of a road. But

Georges mother was gone.

The baby was weak and sick.

He was brought back to the

Carver farm. No one knew

if he would live.

George and Mary were

sold at a slave auction

like this one.

Freedom!

In time, George got his

strength back. But he was still

too weak to work in the fields.

Instead, George worked in

the house. He learned how to

cook and sew. He helped in the

garden, too.

When George was about four

years old, he got great news.

Slavery became illegal! The

Carver farm was the only home

George had ever known. So,

he stayed with them.

Free at Last!

Abraham Lincoln (above) was president

during the Civil War. In that war, the North

and the South fought over states rights.

People in the South thought states should

rule how they thought was best for their

states, even if that meant allowing slavery.

Lincoln did not agree. He said slavery was

no longer allowed in any state.

Life with the Carvers

When George was five years

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