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Author Hopkinson, Deborah
Title Up before daybreak : cotton and people in America / Deborah Hopkinson
Publisher New York : Scholastic Nonfiction, c2006
LOCATION CALL # STATUS
  2nd Floor Young Adults  YA331.763 HOPKINSON      CHECK SHELVES
  2nd Floor Young Adults  YA331.763 HOPKINSON      CHECK SHELVES
Descript 120 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-114) and index
Contents A shoeful of cotton seeds -- Up before daybreak -- Mountains of cotton -- At the clang of a bell -- From can to can't -- They called us lintheads -- Cotton pickers -- Mill workers
Summary Read about the importance of cotton in America's history and learn about the lives of people who picked it and worked with it
Note Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 7.0 3
A Junior Library Guild selection
DANBURY 8TH GRADE 2009
Subject Cotton picking -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature
Cotton growing -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature
Cotton trade -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature
Slaves -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
Cotton farmers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
Slavery -- United States -- Juvenile literature
Cotton picking
Cotton growing
Cotton trade
Slaves -- Biography
Slavery
ISBN 0439639018



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