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"The narrator is a farm boy named Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted. The Chandlers farm eighty acres that they rent, not own, and when the cotton is ready they hire a truckload of Mexicans and a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it.".
"For six weeks they pick cotton, battling the heat, the rain, the fatigue, and, sometimes, each other. As the weeks pass Luke sees and hears things no seven-year-old could possibly be prepared for, and finds himself keeping secrets that not only threaten the crop but will change the lives of the Chandlers forever."--BOOK JACKET.
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Boys, Cotton farmers, Migrant labor, Nineteen fifties, Farm life, Fiction, Large type books, Rural families, Arkansas, fiction, Fiction, historical, New York Times reviewed, American fiction, Bildungsromans, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Muchachos, Ficción, Vida agrícola, Familias rurales, Granjeros de algodón, Domestic fiction, Cotton growing, Tenant farmers, Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers, Migrant agricultural laborers, Baseball stories, Children's secretsShowing 10 featured editions. View all 59 editions?
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Using his own childhood for inspiration (and leaving the lawyers behind), bestselling author John Grisham sets A Painted House in 1950s rural Arkansas. During harvest time, together with hired Mexicans and hill people, seven-year-old Luke Chandler picks cotton on his family's rented 80 acres. But racial tension, a forbidden love affair, and murder cause Luke to grow up before he's ready.
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