The hard-times jar
By: Ethel Footman Smothers ; pictures by John Holyfield.
Contributors: Holyfield, John, ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Migrant labor -- Fiction.; Books and reading -- Fiction.; African Americans -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Emma, the daughter of poor migrant workers, longs to own a real book, and when she turns eight and must attend school for the first time, she is amazed to discover a whole library in her classroom.
Notes: "Frances Foster books."