Copyright © 1996 by Ann Rinaldi
Reader’s guide copyright © 2005 by Harcourt, Inc.
All rights reserved. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Harcourt Children’s Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1996.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Rinaldi, Ann.
Hang a thousand trees with ribbons:
the story of Phillis Wheatley/Ann Rinaldi.
p. cm.
“Gulliver Books.”
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary: A fictionalized biography of the eighteenth-century African woman who, as a child, was brought to New England to be a slave, and after publishing her first poem when a teenager, gained renown throughout the colonies as an important black American poet.
1. Wheatley, Phillis, 1753–1784—Juvenile fiction. [1. Wheatley, Phillis, 1753–1784—Fiction. 2. African Americans—Fiction. 3. Women poets—Fiction. 4. Slaves—Fiction. 5. Poets—Fiction. 6. Massachusetts—History—Colonial period, ca. 1600–1775—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.R459Han 2005
[Fic]—dc22 2004054033
ISBN 978-0-15-200876-5 hardcover
ISBN 978-0-15-205393-2 paperback
eISBN 978-0-547-35149-0
v2.0717