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Can I read Molly Bannaky on EtoBox?
Molly Bannaky by Alice McGill; pictures by Chris K. Soentpiet is a children's book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Molly Bannaky about?
<p><p>On a cold gray morning in 1683, Molly Walsh sat on a stool tugging at the udder of an obstinate cow. When she spilled the milk, she was brought before the court for stealing. Because she could read, Molly escaped the typicalpunishment of death on the gallows. At the age of seventeen, the English dairymaid was exiled from her country and sentenced to work as an indentured servant in British Colonial America. Molly worked for a planter in Maryland for seven long years. Then she was given an ox hitched to a cart, some supplies-and her freedom. That a lone woman should stake land was unheard of. That she would marry an African slave was even more so. Yet Molly prospered, and with her husband Bannaky, she turned a one-room cabin in the wilderness into a thriving one hundred-acre farm. And one day she had the pleasure of writing her new grandson's name in her cherished Bible: Benjamin Banneker.<p></p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>This sketchy, ultimately unfocused picture book introduces the spirited British exile who would become grandmother to Benjamin Banneker, the first black man to publish an almanac. After a cow knocks over a pail of milk, Molly, a 17-year-old dairy maid,
Who reads Molly Bannaky?
It is typically read by young readers, and the parents and educators who guide them.
Common subject areas: juvenile, young adult.
- Author
- Alice McGill; pictures by Chris K. Soentpiet
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781439594421
- Category
- children's
- Subjects
- Children'S, Fiction, Juvenile
- Rating
- 4.09 / 5 (164 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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