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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Always Plenty to Do: Growing Up on a Farm in the Long Ago

Always Plenty to Do: Growing Up on a Farm in the Long Ago

Riney-Kehrberg, Pamela

Hardcover

Series: Windword Books for Young Readers

General Juvenile NonfictionHistory

Publisher Price: $21.95

ISBN10: 0896726924
ISBN13: 9780896726925
Publisher: Texas Tech Univ Pr
Published: Sep 20 2011
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
The story of childhood on America's farms in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Always Plenty to Do is a journey back to America's breadbasket. Fleshing out the contours of everyday life, it reveals what farm children saw, heard, smelled, tasted, and felt--and how they worked, played, and learned. Drawing upon rich primary sources from the Great Plains and Midwest, Riney-Kehrberg combines biography and historical narrative to invite young readers into the nation's rural past. Always Plenty to Do provides a strong, basic background in America's farm heritage through the eyes of children who experienced it. Readers will taste the biscuits and lard that mothers packed in lunch pails, and feel the weight of the buckets of water that children carried from the well. In addition to physical and technological differences (what life was like before the Internet, or even cars and electricity), Always Plenty to Do addresses emotional differences, such as the substantial responsibility children bore for the farm's success and their family's well-being.

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