Littlejim
By: Gloria Houston ; illustrations by Thomas B. Allen.
Contributors: Allen, Thomas B. 1928- ill.
Publisher: Philomel Books
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: Country life -- Fiction.; Fathers and sons -- Fiction.; Contests -- Fiction.; North Carolina -- Fiction.
Description: Twelve-year-old Littlejim, a bookish boy living in a rural North Carolina community in the early years of the twentieth century, hopes to win a newspaper essay contest and thus gain the respect of his stern father.