Title: Lucky beans
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.
Subjects: History, Depressions, Contests, African Americans, Family life, Arithmetic, Fiction, Children's fiction, Contests, fiction, Arithmetic, fiction, Family life, fiction, African americans, fiction, Depressions, fiction, United states, history, 20th century, fiction
Places: United States
Time periods: 1919-1933, 1929