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" Who's Jim Hines? / "
Jean Alicia Elster.
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BL
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686213
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b508402
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| Main Entry
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Elster, Jean Alicia.
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| Title & Author
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Who's Jim Hines? /\ Jean Alicia Elster.
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| Publication Statement
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Detroit :: Wayne State University Press,, c2008.
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Great Lakes books
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xii, 134 p. :: ill. ;; 20 cm.
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0814334024
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: 9780814334027
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9780814334024
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| Contents
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Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1: Wood-burning stoves -- 2: Frostbite -- 3: Dancing the Polka -- 4: Lost schoolbooks -- 5: Delivering wood -- 6: Donkey saw -- 7: Wood and toys -- 8: Ice cream machine -- 9: Drum and bugle corps -- 10: Chicken in the truck -- 11: Riding to the factory -- 12: Good service at a fair price -- Epilogue -- About the author.
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| Abstract
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In 1935 Detroit, a twelve-year-old African American boy learns about the realities of racial injustice while working for his father's wood company during the Great Depression.
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African Americans, Juvenile fiction.
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African Americans, Fiction.
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Depressions-- 1929-- Michigan, Fiction.
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Fathers and sons, Fiction.
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Race relations, Fiction.
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Michigan, History, 20th century, Fiction.
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Who is Jim Hines?
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