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Title Up before daybreak : cotton and people in America / Deborah Hopkinson.
Author Hopkinson, Deborah.
Publication Info. New York : Scholastic Nonfiction, c2006.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Children's  J 331.7633 HOP    Check Shelves
Description 120 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Awards A Junior Library Guild selection.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-114) and index.
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.
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.
Note Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 7.0 3
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 (hardcover) : $18.99
Standard No. 9780439639019
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