Puffin Books, 1976-30-09
Blue Willow
Blue Willow
Newbery Library, Puffin and Puffin Newberry Library
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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, which so resembles the pattern on her treasured blue willow plate, will be their permanent home.
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Book Details
Book Details
Age Range • 8-12
Pages • 176
Subjects • Poverty • Migrant labor • California
Categories • Juvenile Fiction | Lifestyles | Farm Life & Ranch Life • Juvenile Fiction | Family | Parents • Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Poverty & Homelessness
Publisher Summary
Publisher Summary
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.
