Book
1 of 1 Copy Available
- CENTRAL: Children's Collection
Who's Jim Hines?
Call Number
- J ELST (CEN)
Publication Information
Detroit : Wayne State University Press, ©2008.
Physical Description
xii, 134 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Series
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.
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.
Subjects
- African Americans > Michigan > Detroit > Juvenile fiction.
- Depressions > 1929 > Michigan > Detroit > Juvenile fiction.
- Lumber trade > Juvenile fiction.
- Fathers and sons > Juvenile fiction.
- Race discrimination > Juvenile fiction.
- African Americans > Fiction.
- Race relations > Fiction.
- Depressions > 1929 > Michigan > Fiction.
- Fathers and sons > Fiction.
- Detroit (Mich.) > Juvenile fiction.
- Detroit (Mich.) > Race relations > Juvenile fiction.
- Michigan > History > 20th century > Fiction.