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Author
Series
Pub. Date
1943
Physical Desc
207 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A Cajun girl tries to keep her family together on the Louisiana bayou. It's been almost 2 years since Suzette's father caught 2 bullets in his back. Since then, he's been bed-ridden, too sick to hunt or fish or do any of the things a bayou man must do to keep his family fed. While he heals, Suzette scours the swamps around her house for fish, gators, or anything she can sell to put food on the table. It's hard, but Suzette is a proud Cajun, and work...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1948
Physical Desc
177 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A boy and his grandpa hope to strike oil in drought-ridden Oklahoma. It's hot in Oklahoma. There's no wind, the wells are dry, and the ground is dead. Orvie's family is doing everything they can to keep their farm going. If they miss a payment on the mortgage, the bank will take their home away, and they'll have nowhere else to go. Farming is tough, honest work, and it's no way to get rich. For years, Orvie's grandfather has sworn that there's oil...
Author
Language
English
Description
It's the worst blizzard in fifty years! Delores is very ill, but there's no way to get through the snow. How long will she be stranded at school? Out on the South Dakota prairie, the winters are fierce. This storm is the worst one yet: It's below freezing outside, and the winds are howling. All of the other kids have gone home, but Delores's family can't get to her, so she has to stay at the school. Between a fuel shortage and having to boil snow...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1959
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
173 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A young girl grows up in the sooty shadow of the coal mines of West Virginia. When the whistle blows, Christina knows her father is coming home. Every day he emerges from the pit with his skin caked in coal dust. He's 50 now and he's been working in the mines since he was 12 years old. It's dangerous, backbreaking labor, but he does it because he loves his family. As far as Christina is concerned, there is no job in the world more honorable than digging...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1965
Physical Desc
xi, 275 pages : illustrations, facsimile, maps (2 color on lining papers) portraits ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Guns at the Forks is a special reissue commemorating the 250th anniversary of the French and Indian War. In a spirited, intelligent, and informative history, O'Meara tells the story of five successive forts, particularly Fort Duquesne and Fort Pitt, and the dramatic part they played in the war between 1750 and 1760. He describes Washington's capitulation at Fort Necessity, Braddock's defeat at the Monongahela, and Forbes's successful campaign to retake...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1967
Physical Desc
xvi, 203 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
A young boy dreams of music and sunshine in the Great Smoky Mountains. As far as Billy is concerned, there's no sight more beautiful than the sun setting over the Blue Ridge Mountains. When the day is done, he sneaks away from his work to watch the sun go down. If his father knew, he would call Billy lazy, but Mama would understand. She knows life in the mountains is hard and that there's no point in living if a person can't take time to appreciate...
8) Flood Friday
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
xvi, 95 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sally and her family live in Vermont. A major flood in towns affects everyone. The family stays in the high school until the flood recedes.