Ferris, Jeri.

What are you figuring now? : a story about Benjamin Banneker / by Jeri Ferris ; illustrations by Amy Johnson. - Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, c1988. - 64 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - A Carolrhoda creative minds book .

A biography of the Afro-American farmer and self-taught mathematician, astronomer, and surveyor for the new capital city of the United States in 1791, who also calculated a successful almanac notable for its preciseness.

ISBN: 0876143311 (lib. bdg.) :

LCCN: 88007267 /AC/r92

Subjects--Personal Names:
Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806 --Juvenile literature.
Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Astronomers--Biography--Juvenile literature.--United States
Afro-Americans--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Astronomers.
Afro-Americans--Biography.

LC Class. No.: QB36.B22 / F47 1988

Dewey Class. No.: 520.92/4 B 92