Up before daybreak : cotton and people in America

Up before daybreak : cotton and people in America / Deborah Hopkinson.

Author/creator	Hopkinson, Deborah
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	New York : Scholastic Nonfiction, ©2006.
Description	120 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject(s)	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. Enslaved persons--United States --Biography --Juvenile literature Cotton farmers--United States --Biography --Juvenile literature. Slavery--United States --Juvenile literature. Cotton picking. Cotton growing. Cotton trade. Enslaved persons--Biography Slavery.

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.
Abstract	Read about the importance of cotton in America's history and learn about the lives of people who picked it and worked with it.
Local note	Little-345596--305131046583$
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-114) and index.
Study program note	Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning
Awards note	A Junior Library Guild selection.
LCCN	2005008128
ISBN	0439639018 (hardcover) :
ISBN	9780439639019 (hardcover)
ISBN	9780439639019
Stock number	Junior Library Guild http://www.juniorlibraryguild.com