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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Fiction Juvenile works Electronic book Juvenile fiction |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Elster, Jean Alicia. Who's Jim Hines? Detroit : Wayne State University Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2008007457 (OCoLC)223369964 |
Material Type: | Document, Fiction, Primary school, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jean Alicia Elster |
ISBN: | 9780814335437 0814335438 |
OCLC Number: | 757544076 |
Awards: | A 2009 Michigan Notable Books selection |
Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 134 pages) : illustrations. |
Contents: | Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1: Wood-burning stoves -- 2: Frostbite -- 3: Dancing the Polka -- 4: Lost schoolbooks -- 5: Delivering wood -- 6: Donkey saw -- 7: Wood and toys -- 8: Ice cream machine -- 9: Drum and bugle corps -- 10: Chicken in the truck -- 11: Riding to the factory -- 12: Good service at a fair price -- Epilogue -- About the author. |
Series Title: | Great Lakes books. |
Other Titles: | Who is Jim Hines? |
Responsibility: | Jean Alicia Elster. |
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Abstract:
Looks at issues of race in Depression-era Detroit for young readers, aged 8 through 12. This book presents a story based on real events about Douglas Ford Jr, a twelve-year-old African American boy growing up in Detroit in the 1930s.
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