Down in the Piney Woods

Ethel Footman Smothers. Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, $4.99 (156pp) ISBN 978-0-679-84714-4

Adroit use of dialect gives an extra sparkle to a feisty African American girl's first-person account of life on a backwoods Georgia farm. Ages 8-12. (Feb.)

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