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Who's Jim Hines?

By Jean Alicia Elster
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By Jean Alicia Elster
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A look at issues of race in Depression-era Detroit for middle grade readers, aged 8 through 12, and up!

Who’s Jim Hines? is a story based on real events about Douglas Ford Jr., a twelve-year-old African American boy growing up in Detroit in the 1930s. Doug’s father owns the Douglas Ford Wood Company, and Doug usually helps his dad around the scrap wood yard located in the side lot next to their house. But after Doug loses his school textbooks one day he is faced with the prospect of paying f...

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