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Working cotton /

Williams, Sherley Anne, 1944-

Working cotton / written by Sherley Anne Williams ; illustrated by Carole Byard. - 1st ed. - San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1992. - 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.

"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"--T.p. verso.

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

0152996249

91021586


Migrant labor--Fiction.
Cotton picking--Fiction.
Family life--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Caldecott Honor book--1993.
Coretta Scott King Honor book--1993.


Multicultural literature.
Contemporary realistic fiction.

PZ7.W668174 / Wo 1992

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