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

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.
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 105-114) and index.
Study program note Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning
Study program note Accelerated Reader
Awards noteA Junior Library Guild selection.
Awards noteNotable Book for a Global Society award winner, 2007
Issued in other formOnline version: Hopkinson, Deborah. Up before daybreak. New York : Scholastic Nonfiction, ©2006
Issued in other formOnline version: Hopkinson, Deborah. Up before daybreak. New York : Scholastic Nonfiction, ©2006
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LCCN2005008128
ISBN0439639018 (hardcover)
ISBN9780439639019 (hardcover)
ISBN1415655901
ISBN9781415655900
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