- Juvenile fiction, Migrant labor, Poverty, Fiction
To Janey Larkin, the blue willow plate was the most beautiful thing in her life, a symbol of the home she could only dimly remember. Now that her father was an itinerant worker, Janey didn't have a home she could call her own or any real friends, as her family had to keep moving, following the crops from farm to farm.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and prestige.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Doris Gates
- First published
- 1940
- Pages
- 172
- Publisher
- Live Oak Media, Scholastic Inc., by arrngmt w/ Viking Pengun, a div. of Penguin Books USA Inc., NY, USA, Viking Press
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- Chinese, English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780812436716
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“JANEY LARKIN PAUSED ON THE TOP STEP OF THE SHACK AND looked down at her shadow.”
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