num_pages: 239
description: Jim the Boy is a coming-of-age novel by Tony Earley, published by Little, Brown and Co. in 2000. It details a year in the life of Jim Glass, who lives, with his mother and three uncles, in the small fictional town of Aliceville, North Carolina in 1934 during the Great Depression.
language: English
title: Jim the Boy
titlecomplete: Jim the Boy
genres: Coming Of Age, Historical Fiction, Southern, Historical, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Young Adult, Adult, Fiction
ratings_count: 3175
places: The United States of America, North Carolina
series: Jim Glass
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Alabama Author Award
category: Young Adult
publisher: Back Bay Books