During the Great Depression, Marshall, an African American boy, uses lessons learned in arithmetic class and guidance from his mother to figure out how many beans are in a jar in order to win her a new sewing machine in a contest
Themes
Genres: Fiction
Categories: Beautiful Life, Cross Group
Content: Economic Struggle, STEM
Settings: Northern America, United States of America
Ethnicity: Unspecified
Gender: Boy/Man, Girl/Woman
Race/Culture: Black/African/African American, White/European American/Caucasian
Cross Group Sub: Direct, Negative, Non-Central
Character Prominence: Dominant Main, Secondary