Poor is Just a Starting Place
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During the Great Depression, twelve-year-old Artie Wilson, determined to escape plowing and planting the fields and milking the cow on her family's farm, longs to leave Buck Creek, Kentucky, and her life of poverty.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Holiday House, c2005.
Year Published: 2005
Description: 196 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0823418847 (hardcover)
SUBJECTS
Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction.
Family life -- Kentucky -- Fiction.
Poverty -- Fiction.
Schools -- Fiction.
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
Kentucky -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.