Blue Willow
A Newbery Honor Book
by Doris Gates
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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 will be their permanent home. -- bookshare.org
Janey Larkin once had a home. But that was before the drought. Now Janey and her parent are migrants, picking crops in the San Joaquin valley in California, moving on every few months. They have little more than the clothes on their back - except for the Blue Willow Plate which to Janey stands for all beautiful things. Janey longs for a real home, for friends and a regular school.
This is a story about doing your best and about finding a home. It is a gentle story with well drawn characters.--Goodreads
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Blue Willow: A Newberry Honor Book
1968, Scholastic Inc., by arrngmt w/ Viking Pengun, a div. of Penguin Books USA Inc., NY, USA, Scholastic
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Blue Willow: A Newbery Honor Book
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Published and Printed in the U.S.A. / "A Newbery Honor Book." / Renewed1968 / Reprinted / Originally published: New York : Viking, ©1940.
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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. Someday, Janey promised the willow plate, with its picture of a real house, her family would once again be able to set down roots in a community.
Blue Willow is an important fictional account of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, and has been called The Grapes of Wrath for children. It won a Newbery Honor and many other awards.
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