Poor is just a starting place / Leslie J. Wyatt.
By: Wyatt, Leslie J.
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BookPublisher: New York : Holiday House, c2005Edition: 1st ed.Description: v, 196 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0823418847 (hardcover).Subject(s): Depressions -- 1929 -- Juvenile fiction | Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction | Family life -- Kentucky -- Fiction | Poverty -- Fiction | Schools -- Fiction | Fathers and daughters -- Fiction | Kentucky -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction | Historical fiction | Great Depression, 1929-1939 -- Fiction | Family life -- Kentucky -- Fiction | Poverty -- Fiction | School stories | Father-daughter relationship -- Fiction | Kentucky -- History -- Fiction | Historical fictionDDC classification: [Fic] Summary: Twelve-year-old Artie Wilson, tired of plowing, planting, and milking the cow on her family's farm during the Great Depression, is determined to escape her life of poverty in Buck Creek, Kentucky, and hopes that school will open the door to a better future.
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Twelve-year-old Artie Wilson, tired of plowing, planting, and milking the cow on her family's farm during the Great Depression, is determined to escape her life of poverty in Buck Creek, Kentucky, and hopes that school will open the door to a better future.
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