Title: Littlejim
First published: 1990
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Country life, Contests, Fathers and sons, New York Times reviewed, Children's fiction, Country life, fiction, North carolina, fiction, Parent and child, fiction
Places: North Carolina