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Across the Fruited Plain
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Title: Across the Fruited Plain
Author: Florence Crannell Means
Release Date: June 25, 2006 [eBook #18681]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
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ACROSS THE FRUITED PLAIN
by
FLORENCE CRANNELL MEANS
With Illustrations by Janet Smalley
[Illustration: Beechams in Reo]
New York : Friendship Press, c1940
Plans and procedures for using Across The Fruited Plain will be found in "A Junior Teacher's Guide on the Migrants," by E. Mae Young. Photographs of migrant homes and migrant Centers will be found in the picture story book Jack Of The Bean Fields, by Nina Millen.
This book is dedicated to a whole troop of children "across the fruited plain": Tomoko, Willie May, Fei-Kin, Nawamana, Candelaria and Isabell, and to the newest child of all--our little Mary Margaret.
[Illustration: Cissy and Tommy at the Center]
CONTENTS
Foreword 1: The House Of Beecham 2: The Cranberry Bog 3: Shucking Oysters 4: Peekaneeka? 5: Cissy From The Onion Marshes 6: At The Edge Of A Mexican Village 7: The Boy Who Didn't Know God 8: T