Sallie Gal and the Wall-A-Kee Man

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By Shelia P. Moses
Publisher Scholastic Inc
Sallie Gal and the Wall-A-Kee Man
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Sallie Gal admires cousin Wild Cats hair ribbons that fly in the wind when she jumps Double Dutch. More than anything, Sallie Gal wants a set of her very own. But money is hard to come by. Especially for things she doesnt really need. One day, the Wallakee Man comes through town. He has a whole general storeright in the back of his station wagon! When he secretly slips Sallie Gal some ribbons as a gift, she is delighted. But Mama has too much dignity to take charity. Sallie Gal really wants those ribbons. Now she must struggle with her conscience to do the right thing. In this immediate and exciting childsized adventure, Shelia P. Moses tells a heartwarming story of a cotton sharecropper family on a North Carolina farm in the 1960s.

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13072 words13,072 words
160 pages160 pages
Lexile 620LLexile 620L
Published 2007Published 2007

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9780439908900

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