Smothers, Ethel Footman

The hard-times jar - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. - 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Emma, the daughter of poor migrant workers, longs to own a real book, and when she turns eight and must attend school for the first time, she is amazed to discover a whole library in her classroom.

ISBN: 0374328528

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Migrant labor -- Juvenile fiction.
Books and reading -- Juvenile fiction.
African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.