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Working cotton Cover Image Book

Working cotton / written by Sherley Anne Williams ; illustrated by Carole Byard.

Williams, Sherley Anne, 1944-1999 (Author). Byard, Carole, 1941-2017 (illustrator.). Byard, Carole, 1941-2017 (Added Author).

Summary:

A young black girl relates the daily events of her family's migrant life in the cotton fields of central California.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0152996249
  • ISBN: 9780152996246
  • ISBN: 0152014829
  • ISBN: 9780152014827
  • Physical Description: 1 volume (unnumbered pages) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1992]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"The text of Working Cotton is based on the poems "the trimming of the feathers" and "conejo," originally published in The Peacock poems by Sherley Anne Williams"--title page verso.
Target Audience Note:
AD600L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR LG 2.8 0.5 51693.

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Subject:
African Americans > Fiction.
African Americans > Juvenile fiction.
Cotton picking > Fiction.
Cotton picking > Juvenile fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Families > Juvenile fiction.
Migrant labor > Fiction.
Migrant labor > Juvenile fiction.
Genre:
Fiction.

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  • 30 of 30 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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