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Picking Peas for a Penny

by Angela Shelf Medearis · 1990

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A black girl describes the hard work and the rewards involved in growing up on a farm during the Depression of the 1930s.

Juvenile literatureHistorySocial life and customsDepressionsFarm lifeAfrican AmericansAfrican American farmers