Lucky Beans
By Becky Birtha; Nicole Tadgell (Illustrator)
(Albert Whitman & Company, Hardcover, 9780807547823, 32pp.)
Publication Date: March 2010
Categories: Concepts - Counting & Numbers, People & Places - United States - African-American, Historical - United States - 20th Century
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Description
During the Great Depression, an African-American boy uses lessons learned in arithmetic class to figure out how many beans are in a jar to win his mother a sewing machine. Full color.











