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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...
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English
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President Jimmy Carter has become an acclaimed, best-selling author since his days in the White House. In An Hour Before Daylight, he offers poignant remembrances of his childhood days in Depression-era rural Georgia. With eloquent yet conversational prose, Carter recalls the events and people who shaped his life from his earliest days. He describes the sharecropping economy of the 1930s, where hard farm labor was done by hand and those who worked...
7) I married a city boy: the life and times of an Iowa farm family : stories to entertain and inspire
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Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
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""I Married A City Boy" is a compelling collection of stories and insights from an Iowa farm wife and mother. Some stories and insights are humorous, others are serious, and some simply invoke thought. Stories range from humorous and bittersweet memories of the home barber chair as her sons were growing up, to her humorous insights as she helps with the corn harvest, to the lessons that can be learned from a simple corn stalk. She addresses her mother's...
9) I almost missed...the great depression: America's darkest hour and how one family of ten survived it
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Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Focuses on some of the highlights of the dark years of the Great Depression as they impacted one family--Wally and Ruth Chilstrom and their eight children. This is the account of how they made it though those stressful times. Low crop price, tragic personal losses, births and miscarriages, threats to dignity, family separation during difficult times, unemployment, bank failures, severe weather, signs of change for the better, followed by more disappointment--are...
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