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Author
Appelt, Kathi, 1954-
Title
Down Cut Shin Creek : the packhorse librarians of Kentucky / Kathi Appelt & Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer.
Imprint
New York, N.Y. : HarperCollins, c2001.
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PCMS Jumpstart Non-Fiction
027 APPELT
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Edition
1st ed.
Description
58 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 56-57) and index.
Indexed In:
Wilson's Children, July 2002
School Library Journal starred, May 2001
Book Links (A.L.A.), April 2001
Booklist, July 2001
Horn Book, May 2001
Bulletin (Center for Children's books), October 2001
Kirkus Review, April 2001
Riverbank Review, December 2001
Summary
Describes the job of the packhorse librarians, who were responsible for taking books to people in rural Kentucky in the 1930's on horseback.
Audience
6.7
3-6 Follett Library Resources
Study Program
Accelerated Reader AR MG RL 6.4 1.0 51214
Subject
United States. Work Projects Administration. Kentucky -- Juvenile literature.
United States. Work Projects Administration. Kentucky.
Packhorse librarians -- Kentucky -- Juvenile literature.
Rural libraries -- Kentucky -- Juvenile literature.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Kentucky -- Juvenile literature.
Mountain life -- Kentucky -- Juvenile literature.
Packhorse librarians -- Kentucky.
Rural libraries -- Kentucky.
Depressions -- 1929.
Mountain life -- Kentucky.
Kentucky -- Rural conditions -- Juvenile literature.
Kentucky -- History.
Added Author
Schmitzer, Jeanne Cannella.
ISBN
006029244X
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