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Authors: Mildred Pitts Walter
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MILDRED PITTS WALTER
is widely admired for her positive, realistic portraits of African-American family life. A former elementary school teacher, she truly enjoys the company of children and relishes hearing what they have on their minds. Mrs. Walter has been honored with many awards during her long writing career, including the 1987 Coretta Scott King Award for
JUSTIN AND THE BEST BISCUITS IN THE WORLD
and the 1993 Christopher Award for
MISSISSIPPI CHALLENGE
. The author lives in Denver. In 1996 she was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame.
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Cover art © 2010 by James Bernardin
Chapter 8, THE EXODUSTERS, is based on information from the scholarly work
EXODUSTERS: Black Migration to Kansas after Reconstruction
by Nell Irvin Painter, first published in 1977 by Albert A. Knopf.
JUSTIN AND THE BEST BISCUITS IN THE WORLD
. Text copyright © 1986 by Mildred Pitts Walter. Illustrations copyright © 1986 by Catherine Stock. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Walter, Mildred Pitts.
Justin and the best biscuits in the world.
p. cm.
Summary: Suffering in a family full of females, ten-year-old Justin feels that cleaning and keeping house are women's work until he spends time on his beloved grandfather's ranch.
ISBN 978-0-06-195891-5
[1. Sex rolesâFiction. 2. GrandfathersâFiction. 3. Ranch lifeâFiction. 4. Family lifeâFiction. 5. Afro-AmericansâFiction.] I. Stock, Catherine, ill. 2. Title.
PZ7.W17125Ju  1986       86007148
Fic      CIP
AC
First paperback edition, 2010
EPub Edition © April 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-201273-9
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