Suggested Reading

My Work Is That Of Conservation, An Environmental Biography of George Washington Carver

  • Author: Mark Hersey
  • Published: The University of Georgia Press, 2011
  • ISBN: 978-08203-3870-5
  • Level: High School & up

George Washington Carver, A Biography

  • Author: Gary R. Kremer
  • Published: Greenwood Press, 2011
  • ISBN: 978-0313-34796-2
  • Level: High School & up

The Groundbreaking, Chance-taking Life of George Washington Carver and Science & Invention in America

  • Author: Cheryl Harness
  • Published: National Geographic Society, 2008
  • ISBN: 978-1-4263-0197-1
  • Level: Ages 10 & up

Carver A Life In Poems

  • Author: Marilyn Nelson
  • Published: Front Street Press, 2001
  • ISBN: 1-886910-53-7
  • Level: High School & up

George Washington Carver: In His Own Words

  • Author: Edited by Gary R. Kremer
  • Published: University of Missouri Press, Columbia and London, 1987
  • ISBN: 0-8262-0785-5
  • Level: High School & up

George Washington Carver: Scientist & Symbol

  • Author: Linda O. McMurry
  • Published: Oxford Paperbacks, Oxford University Press, 1981
  • ISBN:0-19-503205-5
  • Level: High School & up

The Man Who Talks with the Flowers: The Life Story of Dr. George Washington Carver

  • Author: Glenn Clark
  • Published: Macalester Park Publishing Company, Inc, 2003
  • ISBN: 0-910924-09-0
  • Level: High School & up

A Pocketful of Goobers, A Story about George Washington Carver

  • Author: Barbara Mitchell
  • Published: Carolrhoda Books, Inc., 1986
  • ISBN: 0-87614-474-1
  • Level: Ages 8 - 12

The Story of George Washington Carver

  • Author: Eva Moore
  • Published: Scholastic, Inc. 1971
  • ISBN: 0-590-42660-5
  • Level: Ages 10 - 14

Did You Know?

Sketch of the Lincoln School and the Watkins's home

Racial segregation, and sometimes violence, forced George Washington Carver to move from place to place to gain an education. He later sketched the first school (on the right, in drawing) he was allowed to attend in Neosho, Missouri.