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Better to wish : the first generation  Cover Image Book Book

Better to wish : the first generation / Ann M. Martin.

Summary:

In 1930 Abby Nichols is an eight-year-old girl growing up in Maine, but as the Depression deepens, and her mother dies, the responsibility of taking care of her family falls to her, and she has to put her dreams of going to college and becoming a writer on hold.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780545359429
  • ISBN: 0545359422
  • ISBN: 9780545675185
  • ISBN: 0545675189
  • ISBN: 9780545648813
  • ISBN: 0545648815
  • Physical Description: 226 pages ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Scholastic Press, 2013.

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:
790L lexile
Sentence length: 4 (hard) Word frequency: 2 (easy) Lexile.
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader MG 4.7 7.0.
Subject: Families > Maine > Juvenile fiction.
Depressions > 1929 > Juvenile fiction.
Maine > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.
Family life > Maine > Fiction.
Depressions > 1929 > Fiction.
Maine > History > 20th century > Fiction.
Familles > Maine > Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse.
Crises économiques > 1929 > Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse.
Maine > Histoire > 20e siècle > Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse.
Depressions.
Families.
Maine.
Historical fiction.
Great Depression, 1929-1939 > Fiction.
Family life > Maine > Fiction.
Maine > History > Fiction.
Genre: Historical Fiction.
History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.
Historical fiction.
Fiction.
History.
Juvenile works.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
History.
Juvenile works.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at scottsboropl.

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scottsboropl JF Mar 32269001202848 Juvenile - Fiction Available -

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