Houston, Gloria.

Little Jim Gloria Houston ; illustrations by Thomas B. Allen. - New York : Philomel Books, c1990. - 172 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

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Twelve-year-old Littlejim, a bookish boy living in a rural North Carolina community in the early years of the twentieth century, hopes to win a newspaper essay contest and thus gain the respect of his stern father.

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Country life--Fiction
Fathers and sons--Fiction
Contests--Fiction


North Carolina--Fiction

PZ7.H8184 / Li 1990

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