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Latham, Jean Lee

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

251 pp. | Houghton | May, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-618-25081-6 $$17.00 | Paper ISBN 0-618-25074-3 $$6.95
1955
(2) YA Illustrated by John O'Hara, II Cosgrave. This reissue of a Newbery Medal winner is a fictionalized biography of Nathaniel Bowditch, a born mathematician who grew up in Salem; was taken out of school and apprenticed to a ship chandler when he was twelve; read and studied by himself; and when he finally went to sea astonished everyone with his ability to apply his knowledge to navigation.
Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc. | Horn Book Magazine Issue: October, 1955

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