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Picking peas for a penny / by Angela Shelf Medearis ; drawings by Charles Shaw.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection E185.86 .M44 1993
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Medearis, Angela Shelf, 1956- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Depressions--1929.
- Depressions.
- Depressions--1929--United States--Juvenile literature.
- African American farmers--History--20th century--Juvenile literature.
- African American farmers.
- African Americans--Social life and customs.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Social life and customs--Juvenile literature.
- Farm life.
- Farm life--United States--History--20th century--Juvenile literature.
- United States--History--20th century--Juvenile literature.
- United States.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- Stories in rhyme.
- Genre:
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Scholastic Inc., 1993, 1990.
- Summary:
- A black girl describes the hard work and the rewards involved in growing up on a farm during the Depression of the 1930s.
- Notes:
- "Copyright ©1990 by State House Press"--verso of title page.
- "First Scholastic printing, Aprl 1993"--verso of title page.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 0590459422
- 9780590459426
- OCLC:
- 558044311
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