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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679803602
• ISBN13: 9780679803607
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Length: 151 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

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.