Up before daybreak : cotton and people in America /
Deborah Hopkinson.
- First Scholastic paperback printing, October 2007
- New York : Scholastic Nonfiction, 2006
- 120 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-114) and index.
A shoeful of cotton seeds -- Up before daybreak -- Mountains of cotton -- At the clang of a bell -- From can to can't -- They called us lintheads -- Cotton pickers -- Mill workers.
Read about the importance of cotton in America's history and learn about the lives of people who picked it and worked with it.