Off to school
Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert
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.
Read Time: ~5.3 hr
Grandma Lena's big ol' turnip
by Denia Hester (2005)
About this book
Grandma Lena grows a turnip so big that it takes her entire family pull it up and half of the town to eat it. Includes a note about cooking "soul food."
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreGrandma Lena's big ol' turnip Lead Character
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