The nitty gritty.
Illustrated by Alvin Smith.
- [1st ed.]
- New York Dutton [1968]
- 156 p. illus. 21 cm.
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Torn between a desire to stay in school and his father's insistence that it is a waste of time, a black boy decides to quit school and go into business with the uncle he worships. When the venture fails and his uncle deserts him, the boy faces reality with a new maturity.