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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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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PCMS Jumpstart Non-Fiction  027 APPELT    ---  Available
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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