Lucky beans
By: by Becky Birtha ; illustrated by Nicole Tadgell.
Contributors: Tadgell, Nicole, 1969- ill.
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807547823
Subjects: Contests -- Fiction; Arithmetic -- Fiction; Family life -- Fiction; African Americans -- Fiction; Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction; United States -- History -- 1919-1933 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: During the Great Depression, Marshall, an African American boy, uses lessons learned in arithmetic class and guidance from his mother to figure out how many beans are in a jar in order to win her a new sewing machine in a contest.