Down in the Piney Woods

by Ethel Footman Smothers

Book Overview

Rich in the language of the South, here a debut novel about a black sharecropping family's struggle for dignity when faced with the threat of racial violence in 1950s Georgia. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679847146
• ISBN13: 9780679847144
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Length: 151 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Great book

This was one of my favorite books as a kid. I plan on passing it down in my family. A good look, from a personal perspective at Race and Family. Good Reader for 4th graders.