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Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
217 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
When Esther's family moves to a farm during the Great Depression, she soon learns that there are things much more important than that her superstitious mother rarely shows her any affection.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
x, 292 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
A memoir from a schoolteacher of growing up in the heart of the Midwest during the Great Depression describes life on an Iowa farm during a time of endless work, resourcefulness, no tolerance for idleness or waste, family, and kinship.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In 1934, eleven-year-old Terpsichore's father signs up for President Roosevelt's Palmer Colony project, uprooting the family from Wisconsin to become pioneers in Alaska, where Terpsichore refuses to let rough conditions and first impressions get in the way of her grand adventure.
7) Fig
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In 1994, Fig looks back on her life and relates her experiences, from age six to nineteen, as she desperately tries to save her mother from schizophrenia while her own mental health and relationships deteriorate.
Author
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In 1905 North Dakota, eleven-year-old Russian immigrant Shoshana is bullied for being Jewish, but after listening to the music of her homeland, she is reminded of the resilience and traditions her people have brought all the way to the prairie.
11) Salt magic
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
238 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Twelve-year-old Vonceil Taggart, willing to risk everything to set things right, leaves her family's Oklahoma farm in 1919 seeking the salt witch who cast a spell that turned their spring to saltwater.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
ix, 262 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Description
"Inspired by the twenty-three "tales," Matthew Dennison takes a selection of quotations from Potter's stories and uses them to explore her multifaceted life and character: repressed Victorian daughter; thwarted lover; artistic genius; formidable country woman. This dramatic narrative charts her transformation from a young girl with a love of animals and fairy tales into a bestselling author and canny businesswoman--so deeply unusual for the Victorian...
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
viii, 307 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
As he was composing what was to become his most enduring book, E. B. White was obeying the maxim: "Write what you know." Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats--White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours. Painfully shy his entire life, "this boy," White once wrote of himself, "felt for animals a kinship he never felt for people." It is all the more impressive, therefore, how many...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xi, 193 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"The internationally bestselling author of the Guido Brunetti mysteries tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her eighties. In a series of vignettes full of affection, irony, and good humor, Donna Leon narrates a remarkable life she feels hasrather more happened to her than been planned. From a childhood in the company of her New Jersey family, with frequent visits to her grandfather's farm and its beloved animals, and summers spent selling...
15) Wild wings
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
287 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
Callum becomes friends with Iona, a practically feral classmate who has discovered an osprey, thought to be gone from Scotland, on Callum's family farm, and they eventually share the secret with others, including Jeneba who encounters the same bird at her home in Gambia.
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
18 CDs (18 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 129 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
A series of lectures delivered by Professor J. Rufus Fears of the University of Oklahoma in which he explores the following six themes expressed in 36 important books written at different points throughout history: the unconquerable human spirit; youth, old age, and all that is between; romance and love; adventure and courage; laughter and irony; and patriotism.
17) Sylvia and Aki
Author
Publisher
Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
vii, 151 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation.
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Formats
Description
"Domingo Martinez lays bare his interior and exterior worlds as he struggles to make sense of the violent and the ugly, along with the beautiful and the loving. Partly a reflection on the culture of machismo and partly an exploration of the author's boyhood spent in his sister's hand-me-down clothes, this book delves into the enduring and complex bond between Martinez and his deeply flawed, but fiercely protective older brother. It features a cast...
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