TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hopkinson,Deborah
TI  - Up before daybreak: cotton and people in America 
SN  - 0439639018 (hardcover) :
AV  - HD8039.C662 U645 2006
U1  - 331.7/63351/0973 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Scholastic Nonfiction
KW  - Cotton picking
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Cotton growing
KW  - Cotton trade
KW  - Enslaved persons
KW  - Biography
KW  - Cotton farmers
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Slaves
N1  - 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
N2  - Read about the importance of cotton in America's history and learn about the lives of people who picked it and worked with it
ER  -