Title: The sittin' up
Description: "When the patriarch of twelve-year-old Bean's sharecropping community dies, Bean gets a lesson in not only what it means to lose someone you love, but also in how his family and friends care for their dead"--
Subjects: Race relations, Death, Depressions, Sharecroppers, Community life, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, African Americans, History, Great Depression, 1929-1939, Historical fiction
Places: North Carolina, History
Time periods: 1929, 20th century