ONLY PASSING THROUGH: The Story of Sojourner Truth
by Anne Rockwell
illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
Crown
ISBN: 0679891862
Age Level: 7-10

Bold, stylized watercolors make this picture book-biography shine. You'll meet Sojourner Truth and discover how she rose from slavery to become one of the most powerful people in the American abolitionist (anti-slavery) movement in the late 1800s.

   --- Shannon Maughan