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Lucky beansLucky beans

Lucky beans

Becky Birtha

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During the Great Depression, Marshall, an African American boy, uses lessons learned in arithmetic class and guidance from his mother to figure out how many beans are in a jar in order to win her a new sewing machine in a contest.

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OL Work ID
OL16654872W

Subjects

HistoryDepressionsContestsAfrican AmericansFamily lifeArithmeticFictionChildren's fictionContests, fictionArithmetic, fictionFamily life, fictionAfrican americans, fictionUnited states, history, fiction

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