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Who's Jim Hines?

Title: Who's Jim Hines? / Jean Alicia Elster.
Author: Elster, Jean Alicia.
Publication: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2008.

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Schomburg Children's Collection.

Description

xii, 134 p. : ill.; 20 cm.

Summary

In 1935 Detroit, a twelve-year-old African American boy learns about the realities of racial injustice while working for his father's wood company during the Great Depression.

Series Statement

Great Lakes books

Uniform Title

Great Lakes books.

Alternative Title

Who is Jim Hines?

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Contents

Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1: Wood-burning stoves -- 2: Frostbite -- 3: Dancing the Polka -- 4: Lost schoolbooks -- 5: Delivering wood -- 6: Donkey saw -- 7: Wood and toys -- 8: Ice cream machine -- 9: Drum and bugle corps -- 10: Chicken in the truck -- 11: Riding to the factory -- 12: Good service at a fair price -- Epilogue -- About the author.

Call Number

Sc C 12-178

ISBN

9780814334027 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0814334024 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780814334024 (pbk. : alk. paper) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2008007457

OCLC

223369964

Author

Elster, Jean Alicia.

Title

Who's Jim Hines? / Jean Alicia Elster.

Imprint

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2008.

Series

Great Lakes books

Great Lakes books.

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Schomburg Children's Collection.

Research Call Number

Sc C 12-178

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