TY - BOOK AU - Lasky,Kathryn AU - Lee,Paul TI - A voice of her own: the story of Phillis Wheatley, slave poet / Kathryn Lasky ; illustrated by Paul Lee T2 - Candlewick biographies SN - 9780763664275 (hbk.) : U1 - 811/.1B 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Somerville, Mass. PB - Candlewick Press KW - Wheatley, Phillis, KW - Poets, American KW - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 KW - Biography KW - Juvenile literature KW - African American women poets KW - Enslaved persons KW - United States KW - African American poets KW - African Americans KW - Women KW - JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Literary KW - bisacsh KW - JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States / Colonial & Revolutionary Periods KW - JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / United States / African American & Black N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 36) and index; 8-12; Brodart; 3-7; Brodart; Accelerated Reader; MG; 5.9; 1 N2 - A biography of an African girl brought to New England as a slave in 1761 who became famous on both sides of the Atlantic as the first Black poet in America ER -