Up before daybreak : cotton and people in America / Deborah Hopkinson.
| Author/creator | Hopkinson, Deborah |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Scholastic Nonfiction, ©2006. |
| Description | 120 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-114) and index. |
| Study program note | Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning |
| Study program note | Accelerated Reader |
| Awards note | A Junior Library Guild selection. |
| Awards note | Notable Book for a Global Society award winner, 2007 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Hopkinson, Deborah. Up before daybreak. New York : Scholastic Nonfiction, ©2006 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Hopkinson, Deborah. Up before daybreak. New York : Scholastic Nonfiction, ©2006 |
| Genre/form | Local author. |
| Genre/form | collective biographies. |
| Genre/form | Biographies |
| Genre/form | History |
| Genre/form | Juvenile works |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| LCCN | 2005008128 |
| ISBN | 0439639018 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9780439639019 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1415655901 |
| ISBN | 9781415655900 |
| Standard identifier# | 9780439639019 |
| Stock number | Junior Library Guild http://www.juniorlibraryguild.com |