| Description |
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm. |
| Indexed In: |
Wilson's Children, October 2010 |
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School Library Journal, February 2010 |
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Book Links (A.L.A.), January 2011 |
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Booklist, February 2010 |
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Horn Book, May 2010 |
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Kirkus Review, February 2010 |
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Library Media Connection, May 2010 |
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Multicultural Review, June 2010 |
| Summary |
During the Great Depression, Marshall, an African American boy, uses lessons learned in arithmetic class and guidance from his mother to figure out how many beans are in a jar in order to win her a new sewing machine in a contest. |
| Audience |
3.9. |
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3-6 Follett Library Resources. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR LG RL 4.0 P 0.5 WEST LARK |
| Subject |
Contests -- Fiction.
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Arithmetic -- Fiction.
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Family life -- Fiction.
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African Americans -- Fiction.
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Great Depression, 1929-1939 -- Fiction.
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United States -- History -- 1919-1933 -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Picture books for children.
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| Added Author |
Tadgell, Nicole, 1969- illustrator.
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| ISBN |
0807547824 |
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