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Carter, Dorothy

Grandma's General Store: The Ark

135 pp. | Farrar/Foster | March, 2005 | Trade ISBN 0-374-32766-1 $16.00
(4) 1-3 Illustrated by Thomas B. Allen. When their parents travel north to find work during the Depression, five-year-old African-American narrator Pearl and her brother remain in Florida, where they help their grandmother run her store. Overt moralizing and a protagonist significantly younger than the target audience may turn off some readers, but others will find the story engrossing. Serviceable charcoal drawings appear throughout.
Reviewer: Norah Piehl

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