A strawbeater's thanksgiving
By: by Irene Smalls ; illustrated by Melodye Benson Rosales.
Contributors: Rosales, Melodye, ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Determination (Personality trait) -- Fiction.; Slavery -- Fiction.; African Americans -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Determined to be the strawbeater during the corn shucking party, Jess, a small young slave boy, wrestles a bigger, stronger boy for the honor.