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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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Book Description
In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured l... More
Book Information
PublisherSan Val
BindingLibrary Binding (92 editions)
Reading LevelYoung Adults
# of PagesN/A
ISBN-10061370830X
ISBN-13978-0613708302
Publication Date01/2004
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About Albert A. Berg (Editor) : Albert A. Berg is a published editor of young adult books. Some of the published credits of Albert A. Berg include Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (Bloom's Guides), Aldous Huxley's Brave New World... more
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About Harold Bloom (Editor) : Harold Bloom (b. July 11, 1930) is an American professor and prominent literary and cultural critic. Bloom defended 19th-century Romantic poets at a time when their reputations stood at a low ebb, has... more
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About Henry W. Berg (Editor) : Henry W. Berg is a published editor of young adult books. Some of the published credits of Henry W. Berg include The Brontes (Bloom's Modern Critical Views (Paperback)), Marcel Proust (Bloom's Modern ... more
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