Cotton in My Sack / Lois Lenski / 191 pages / Deceased Author Challenge

This book was recommended in a Children's Literature workshop sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis.  Unfortunately, the book is out of print and only available at inflated prices.  Fortunately, we (SCCCLD) hold one copy in our collection.  Ms. Lenski well researched her story of sharecroppers and tenant cotton farmers in rural Arkansas and even visited with them to add detail and realistic interpersonal and familial relationships to her story.  Dealing in a non-pedantic way with a number of economic issues, Cotton in My Sack recounts a family too tough to be overcome by hardship.