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Down in the Piney Woods

by Ethel Footman Smothers · 1991

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The joys and frustrations of family life are portrayed through the eyes of Annie Rye, the ten-year-old daughter of a black sharecropper.

Themes
African AmericanAfrican AmericanMore like thisLess of thissiblingssiblingsMore like thisLess of this
Setting
GeorgiaGeorgiaMore like thisLess of this
Audience
childrens
Length
short · 151 pages

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