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Reinforced:
9780606155519 | Demco Media, January 1, 1999, cover price $15.81 | also contains Going Home | About this edition: Although a Mexican family comes to the United States to work as farm laborers so that their children will have opportunities, the parents still consider Mexico their home.
Hardcover:
9780735100534 | Replica Books, November 1, 1998, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Returning with her migrant family to her father's childhood home, a fourteen-year-old struggles with her new stationary life.
9780394832999 | Random House Childrens Books, September 1, 1976, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Returning with her migrant family to her father's childhood home, a fourteen-year-old struggles with her new stationary life.
Paperback:
9780553273380 | Reissue edition (Bantam Books, February 1, 1988), cover price $2.95 | About this edition: With silent and stubborn determination, a fourteen-year-old girl tries to hold on to a chance for a new way of life on her father's childhood farm
9781889199078 | Banks Channel Books, December 1, 1979, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Returning with her migrant family to her father's childhood home, a fourteen-year-old struggles with her new stationary life.
Hardcover:
9780780767799 | Perfection Learning, August 1, 1998, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: While on detention for passing notes during a history lesson on Cesar Chavez, Kenneth and Aleesa are transported to a vineyard in the 1960s, where they see first-hand what Chavez, the union strikes, and the Schenley boycott did for migrant workers.
Paperback:
9780064434829 | Bilingual edition (Rayo, September 1, 1997), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: As he travels with his family of migrant farmworkers, Diego relies on his radio to provide him with companionship and help connect him to all the different places in which he lives.
Working alongside her family of migrant farm workers during the Great Depression, twelve-year-old Rosie Pearl Bush finds time at the end of her hardworking days to play with her friend Maggie
Hardcover:
9780385321938 | Delacorte Pr, March 1, 1996, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In 1936 twelve-year-old Rosie Pearl Bush and her family of migrants endure the hardships of the Great Depression as they find work picking fruit in the California Valley.
Reinforced:
9780606117739 | Demco Media, August 1, 1997, cover price $11.30 | also contains Purely Rosie Pearl | About this edition: Working alongside her family of migrant farm workers during the Great Depression, twelve-year-old Rosie Pearl Bush finds time at the end of her hardworking days to play with her friend Maggie
Reinforced:
9780606121149 | Reprint edition (Demco Media, April 1, 1997), cover price $15.83 | also contains Working Cotton | About this edition: A young girl relates the daily events of her family's migrant life in the cotton fields of central California
Prebinding:
9780613023511 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $17.20 | About this edition: A young girl relates the daily events of her family's migrant life in the cotton fields of central California
Paperback:
9780152014827 | Reprint edition (Houghton Mifflin, April 1, 1997), cover price $7.00 | About this edition: A young girl relates the daily events of her family's migrant life in the cotton fields of central California
School and Library:
9780152996246 | Harcourt Childrens Books, September 1, 1992, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A young black girl relates the daily events of her family's migrant life in the cotton fields of central California
Reinforced:
9780606121149 | Reprint edition (Demco Media, April 1, 1997), cover price $15.83 | also contains Working Cotton | About this edition: A young girl relates the daily events of her family's migrant life in the cotton fields of central California
Hardcover:
9780786800049 | Hyperion, September 1, 1994, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Teresa, a member of a migrant working family, longs for her grandmother's peaceful home back in Mexico
Paperback:
9780786811328 | Hyperion, September 1, 1994, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Teresa, a member of a migrant working family, longs for her grandmother's peaceful home back in Mexico
Library:
9780786820030 | Hyperion, September 1, 1994, cover price $16.49 | About this edition: Teresa, a member of a migrant working family, longs for her grandmother's peaceful home back in Mexico
Reinforced:
9780606102513 | Demco Media, September 1, 1994, cover price $11.15 | About this edition: Teresa, a member of a migrant working family, longs for her grandmother's peaceful home back in Mexico
Paperback:
9780806125565 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, October 1, 1993, cover price $16.95
9780140073744 | Reissue edition (Viking Pr, March 1, 1985), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Acel Stecker, an unemployed musician, searches for work during the Great Depression and encounters breadlines, hobo jungles, and violent demonstrations
Library:
9780060215484 | Harpercollins, September 1, 1993, cover price $15.89 | About this edition: As he travels with his family of migrant farmworkers, Diego relies on his radio to provide him with companionship
As he travels with his family of migrant farmworkers, Diego relies on his radio to provide him with companionship
Hardcover:
9780060215477 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, September 1, 1993, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: As he travels with his family of migrant farmworkers, Diego relies on his radio to provide him with companionship
Wandering westward, picking fruit for wages, a lonely boy cannot remember his name or his family and takes care of himself until he meets a woman sheep farmer who provides him with a loving home
Hardcover:
9780679200970, titled "Loner" | Random House Childrens Books, June 1, 1963, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: A lonely boy who has no home and works as a migrant laborer makes friends with a sheep-raising family.
Paperback:
9780590443524 | Reprint edition (Apple, January 1, 1992), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: Wandering westward, picking fruit for wages, a lonely boy cannot remember his name or his family and takes care of himself until he meets a woman sheep farmer who provides him with a loving home
Reinforced:
9780606005661 | Demco Media, January 1, 1992, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Wandering westward, picking fruit for wages, a lonely boy cannot remember his name or his family and takes care of himself until he meets a woman sheep farmer who provides him with a loving home
Prebinding:
9780785746263 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $12.40 | About this edition: Wandering westward, picking fruit for wages, a lonely boy cannot remember his name or his family and takes care of himself until he meets a woman sheep farmer who provides him with a loving home
Hardcover:
9780802781208 | Walker & Co, December 1, 1991, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Arly, an orphan in search of a home and a family, escapes from a brutal migrant labor camp, joins a traveling religious show, and battles a devastating Florida hurricane
Hardcover:
9780803228825 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, June 1, 1991, cover price $45.00
Paperback:
9780809165971 | Paulist Pr, December 1, 1990, cover price $2.95 | About this edition: When Pablo, son of Mexican American migrant workers, discovers he has grown out of the prized red shoes he was to wear in the Christmas play, his sadness is matched only by his surprise at a sacrifice his brother makes which demonstrates the true meaningof Christmas.
Having crossed the country with his father during the Depression to find work in California, fourteen-year-old Roy encounters cruel exploitation by the Growers' Association of the desperate, impoverished people pouring into the state.
School and Library:
9780684192123 | Atheneum, November 1, 1990, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Following Harlow Purdy's release from prison, he and his son Roy travel across Depression-era America to California, where father and son are forced to accept exploitive wages for their work in a fruit grove
Hardcover:
9780553054972 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, January 1, 1989, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Consumed with guilt over the contrast between her comfortable life and conditions at the camp for migrant workers where she has been volunteering, sixteen-year-old Anne horrifies her two best friends by threatening to quit the moneymaking business they have started together.
Paperback:
9780553285147 | Reprint edition (Starfire, May 1, 1990), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: Consumed with guilt over the contrast between her comfortable life and conditions at the camp for migrant workers where she has been volunteering, sixteen-year-old Anne horrifies her two best friends by threatening to quit the moneymaking business they have started together.
The daughter of a former migrant worker fears she might have to give up her dream of becoming a school teacher and return to the life of a wanderer.
Paperback:
9780836117417 | Herald Pr, June 1, 1981, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: The daughter of a former migrant worker fears she might have to give up her dream of becoming a school teacher and return to the life of a wanderer.
Hardcover:
9780070619968 | Carson-Dellosa Pub Llc, April 1, 1979, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Mary's dreams for her foster children include a warm house, regular meals and no more traveling.
Hardcover:
9780844671437 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 2000, cover price $22.75 | About this edition: A little girl, who wants most of all to have a real home and to go to a regular school, hopes that the valley her family has come to, which so resembles the pattern on her treasured blue willow plate, will be their permanent home.
9780670175611 | Har/cas edition (Live Oak Media, June 1, 1980), cover price $24.95
Paperback:
9780670175628 | Pap/cas edition (Live Oak Media, June 1, 1980), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: 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.
9780140309249 | Puffin, September 1, 1976, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: A little girl, who wants most of all to have a real home and to go to a regular school, hopes that the valley her family has come to, which so resembles the pattern on her treasured blue willow plate, will be their permanent home.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780670175604 | Random House, June 1, 1980, cover price $9.95
School and Library:
9780670175574 | Viking Pr, January 1, 1940, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A little girl, who wants most of all to have a real home and to go to a regular school, hopes that the valley her family has come to, which so resembles the pattern on her treasured blue willow plate, will be their permanent home.
Reinforced:
9780606023962 | Demco Media, September 1, 1976, cover price $14.53 | About this edition: A little girl, who wants most of all to have a real home and to go to a regular school, hopes that the valley her family has come to, which so resembles the pattern on her treasured blue willow plate, will be their permanent home.
Prebinding:
9780808538165 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $17.20 | About this edition: A little girl, who wants most of all to have a real home and to go to a regular school, hopes that the valley her family has come to, which so resembles the pattern on her treasured blue willow plate, will be their permanent home.
Hardcover:
9780687205608, titled "Josie's Handful of Quietness" | Abingdon Pr, April 1, 1975, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Used to the hard life of her migrant family, twelve-year-old Josie finally realizes her dream of a permanent home and school.
Twelve-year-old Yolanda gains hope for a new life when the local migrant workers begin to organize
School and Library:
9780689303074 | Atheneum, September 1, 1972, cover price $5.50 | About this edition: A twelve-year-old Mexican American and her family of migrant workers glimpse a more stable way of life and the possibility of sharing it.
Library:
9780822501466 | Lerner Pub Group, June 1, 1971, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: The son of a Mexican migrant worker saves a girl from being trampled by a horse during a harvest parade
Library:
9780822501459 | Lerner Pub Group, June 1, 1971, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Felipe wants to attend the summer school for children of migrant workers but must babysit his baby brother.
Library:
9780822501411 | Lerner Pub Group, June 1, 1971, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: A child regrets leaving Texas for summer farm work in Illinois, but realizes 'home' is where family and friends are.
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