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Picking Peas for a Penny
Angela Shelf Medearis | Charles Shaw

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Picking Peas for a Penny

Scholastic (Apr 1993)

Subject

  • African American Farmers
  • African Americans
  • Afro-American Farmers/ United States/ History/ 20th Century/ Juvenile Literature
  • Afro-Americans/ Social Life And Customs/ Juvenile Literature
  • Farm Life/ United States/ History/ 20th Century/ Juvenile Literature

Plot

Angeline and John are off on a pea-picking race. Grandfather has promised them a penny for every pound of peas they pick on a hot summer day during the Depression. But what can the children buy for just a few pennies? Lot's of things. . . . this rollicking, rhyming text . . . provides an upbeat, historical portrait of an African-American farm family.--Booklist.

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