Nobody Knows: African-Americans
By Tana Reiff.
Description
A Hopes and Dreams Historical Novel. Easy to read for beginning readers, middle school to adult, building literacy skills and/or ESL. Mattie's family are sharecroppers in the South. When she is six, Mama takes her to town where she sees two doors marked "White Only" and "Colored Only." Mattie thinks the shopkeeper doesn't like them. Her mother tells her at least she's not a slave, as she was as a child. At 18 Mattie marries Nate Charles. In 1917 their cotton crop is failing, so Nate takes a job in a Chicago meatpacking plant. Mattie is sad to leave home, b...
ISBN(s)
0866473866, 9780866473866
