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Janey lives the rough life of an itinerant family who is one step from financial disaster as they move from one harvest to the next. Check out the new look and enjoy easier access to your favorite features. Though the main character is a 10 year old girl, the realistic portrayal of the deprivation and pain experienced by the working poor during the dust bowlgreat depression draws the reader whether boy or girl into the story. Her novel blue willow, about the experiences of janey larkin, the tenyearold daughter of a migrant farm worker in 1930s california, is a newbery honor book and lewis carroll shelf award winner. Called the juvenile grapes of wrath, it was named a newbery honor book in 1941. Buy blue willow book online at low prices in india blue. About the author doris gates was a librarian and writer of childrens fiction. The horn book in the 1940s i was a third grader in the seattle area. Blue willow by doris gates, vintage scholastic tx126 1974 paperback on. Blue willow by doris gates 1969, paperback about this product. To janey larkin, the blue willow plate was the most beautiful thing in.
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