Cotton in My Sack

by Lois Lenski

Paperback, 1969

Status

Available

Call number

HF1940

Series

American Regional Series - Lenski (6)

Tags

migrant workers fiction, cotton fiction, Arkansas fiction, HF1940's

Genres

Publication

Dell Yearling Book (1969), Edition: 3rd Printing, Paperback, 191 pages

User reviews

LibraryThing member fuzzi
This is the fourth book I've read in Lois Lenski's American Regional series, and I liked it quite a bit. This story takes place in sharecropper areas of Arkansas circa 1947, where poor families scratch a living from growing and picking cotton. The author spent time with the families she writes
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 about, and doesn't glamorize them or judge their lifestyles, but shows them as just "regular folks".
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Language

English

Original publication date

1949

Physical description

191 p.; 7.6 inches

Barcode

7081

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