A Day to Pick Your Own Cotton
Copyright © 2003
Michael Phillips

Cover photo of girls by David Bailey
Cover design by The DesignWorks Group

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.

Uncle Remus stories are the creation of Joel Chandler Harris (1848–1908).

Published by Bethany House Publishers
11400 Hampshire Avenue South
Bloomington, Minnesota 55438

Bethany House Publishers is a division of
Baker Publishing Group, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Printed in the United States of America

ISBN 978-0-7642-2701-1

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Phillips, Michael R., 1946–

A day to pick your own cotton / by Michael Phillips.

     p.    cm. — (Shenandoah sisters)

ISBN 0-7642-2706-8 (hardback : alk. paper) — ISBN 0-7642-2701-7 (pbk.)

1. North Carolina—Fiction. 2. Female friendship—Fiction. 3. Plantation life— Fiction. 4. Race relations—Fiction. 5. Teenage girls—Fiction. 6. Reconstruction— Fiction. 7. Orphans—Fiction. I. Title. II. Series: Phillips, Michael R., 1946- , Shenandoah sisters.

PS3566.H492D396      2003

813'.52—dc21                                                                                        2003001434