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In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.
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Ten-year-old Birdie Boyer can hardly wait to start picking strawberries. But her family has just moved to the Florida backwoods, and they haven't even begun their planting. Making the new farm prosper is not easy. There is the heat to suffer through, and droughts, and cold snaps. And, perhaps most worrisome of all for the Boyers, there are rowdy neighbors, jut itching to start a feud.
5) Miss Hickory
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Relates the adventures of a country doll made of an apple-wood twig with a hickory nut for a head.
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"The Marvell family is on the move, driving from their Wisconsin farm to visit the children's grandmother in Virginia. The night before departure, Mr. Marvell talks to Roger, Heather, and the twins about the wonders of the night sky and explains the zodiac--a beautiful trail traveled by the sun in the daytime and by the moon and planets at night"--Page [2] of cover.
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In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.
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