Off to School

By Battle-Lavert, Gwendolyn & Griffith, Gershom

Publishers Summary:
Wezielee, the youngest child in a sharecropper's family, longs to go to school, but during harvest season Papa insists that she stay home and prepare the midday meal while he and the others work in the fields.

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ISBN
978-0-82341-185-6
Publisher
New York : Holiday House, c1995.


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on January 1, 1996

Gr 1-4 Wezielee longs to go to school, but instead she has to cook meals for her family members who are laboring in the fields. Her inattention causes repeated crises, such as oversalting the beans, overcooking the vegetables, burning the cornbread, and putting too much hot pepper in the soup. Her father finally decides that she should go to school. While the story, set i...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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