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hi. new student teacher would like the 5th graders to read a chapter book
life in the depression and the 1930's.
The 1998 Newbery Award book is set in 1935-1936 in the Oklahoma dustbowl:
HAD A REQUEST TO POST A HIT>>thanks to all !!!!! many came up with the new
Newbery
bev ps.. yes.. Liddie is set in the 1840's
(brain on vacation!!)
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I have recently read Jean
Thesman's The storyteller's daughter. Subjects include: Fathers and
daughters 2. Depression-1929 3. Family life 4. city and town life
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Don't forget the 1998 Newbery, Karen Hesse's _Out of the Dust_ - about
the Depression and the Oklahoma pan handle region.
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An older title would be Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry - Taylor
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Words by Heart_ Sebystan which takes place in the south. _Red-dirt Jessie
also takes place during the same time period.
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Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
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Cat Running - Zilpha Keatly Snyder
Bread Winner - Arvella White
Both about girls. I've read both as they are on past state reading award lists.
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Treasures in the Dust by Tracey Porter
No promise in the wind by Irene Hunt
Ida Early comes over the Mountain by Robert Burch
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Bev Rovelli
Lyncourt Union Free School 315-455-7571
2709 Court Street 315-455-7573 (fax)
Syracuse, New York 13802 brovelli@relex.com
or
brovelli@lyncourt.cnyric.org
"Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling."
> -Margaret Lee Runbeck
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