Wyatt, Leslie J.

Poor is just a starting place / Leslie J. Wyatt. - 1st ed. - New York : Holiday House, c2005. - v, 196 p. ; 22 cm.

Kirkus Review

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.

Young Adult

0823418847 (hardcover)

2004047451


Depressions--1929--Juvenile fiction.
Depressions--1929--Fiction.
Family life--Kentucky--Fiction.
Poverty--Fiction.
Schools--Fiction.
Fathers and daughters--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Great Depression, 1929-1939--Fiction.
Family life--Kentucky--Fiction.
Poverty--Fiction.
School stories.
Father-daughter relationship--Fiction.
Historical fiction.


Kentucky--History--20th century--Fiction.
Kentucky--History--Fiction.

PZ7.W9682 / Po 2005

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