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

Publication Info.	New York : Scholastic Nonfiction, [2006]
	©2006

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Description	120 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Awards	A Junior Library Guild selection.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-114) and index.
Summary	Read about the importance of cotton in America's history and learn about the lives of people who picked it and worked with it.
Contents	Unraveling the threads -- pt. 1. King Cotton : before the Civil War -- ch. 1. A shoeful of cotton seeds -- ch. 2. Up before daybreak -- ch. 3 Mountains of cotton -- ch. 4. At the clang of a bell : the mill girls of Lowell -- pt. 2. Tough times : the Civil War and after -- ch. 5. From can to can't : sharecroppers and tenant farmers -- ch. 6. They called us lintheads : mill villages of the South -- ch. 7. Cotton pickers : the forces of change -- ch. 8. Mill workers : the last generation -- A hundred pounds of cotton : children then and now -- Further reading for young people -- Selected bibliography -- Notes -- Text permissions -- Photo credits -- Index.
Study Program	Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 7.0 3.
	Accelerated Reader AR MG 7.0 3.0 105282.
Subject	Enslaved persons -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Cotton farmers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Cotton growing.
	Cotton growing -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
	Enslaved persons -- Biography.
	Slavery.
	Cotton trade.
	Slavery -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
	Cotton trade -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
	Cotton picking.
	Cotton picking -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN	0439639018 hardcover $18.99
	9780439639019 hardcover

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