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269 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
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Just when twelve-year-old Summer thinks nothing else can possibly go wrong in a year of bad luck, an emergency takes her parents to Japan, leaving Summer to care for her little brother while helping her grandmother cook and do laundry for harvest workers.
2) Bent Road
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355 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Celia Scott and her family move back to her husband's hometown in Kansas, where his sister died under mysterious circumstances twenty years before, and where Celia and two of her children struggle to adjust--especially when a local girl disappears.
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ix, 290 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"During Sarah Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the country's changing economic policies solidified her family's place among the working poor. By telling the story of her life and the lives of the people she loves, Smarsh challenges us to examine the class divide in our country and the myths about people thought to be less because they earn less. Her personal history affirms the corrosive impact intergenerational poverty...
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9 audio discs (approximately 10 1/2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Julene Bair has inherited part of a farming empire and means to create a family and preserve the Bair farm for the next generation. But part of her legacy is a share of the ecological harm the Bair farm has done as it pumps over two hundred million gallons out of the Ogallala aquifer each growing season. The rapidly disappearing aquifer is the sole source of water on the vast western plains, and her family's role in its depletion haunts her.
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