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| Genre/Form: | Juvenile literature Biography Juvenile literature Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hopkinson, Deborah. Up before daybreak. New York : Scholastic Nonfiction, c2006 (OCoLC)608087259 Online version: Hopkinson, Deborah. Up before daybreak. New York : Scholastic Nonfiction, c2006 (OCoLC)608153124 |
| Material Type: | Biography, Juvenile audience, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Deborah Hopkinson |
| ISBN: | 0439639018 : 9780439639019 |
| OCLC Number: | 58729842 |
| Awards: | A Junior Library Guild selection. |
| Description: | 120 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Unraveling the threads -- pt. 1. King Cotton : before the Civil War -- ch. 1. A shoeful of cotton seeds -- ch. 2. Up before daybreak -- ch. 3 Mountains of cotton -- ch. 4. At the clang of a bell : the mill girls of Lowell -- pt. 2. Tough times : the Civil War and after -- ch. 5. From can to can't : sharecroppers and tenant farmers -- ch. 6. They called us lintheads : mill villages of the South -- ch. 7. Cotton pickers : the forces of change -- ch. 8. Mill workers : the last generation -- A hundred pounds of cotton : children then and now -- Further reading for young people -- Selected bibliography -- Notes -- Text permissions -- Photo credits -- Index. |
| Responsibility: | Deborah Hopkinson. |
Abstract:
Read about the importance of cotton in America's history and learn about the lives of people who picked it and worked with it.
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