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  • Blue Willow

    Doris Gates

    Paperback (Puffin Books, Sept. 30, 1976)
    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.
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  • Blue Willow

    Doris Gates, Paul Lantz

    Library Binding (Perfection Learning, Sept. 1, 1976)
    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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  • Blue Willow

    Doris Gates, Paul Lantz

    Paperback (Scholastic, Aug. 16, 1968)
    Janey Larkin can't remember when she's lived in the same place for more than a year. Her family has to keep moving so that her father can find work. But Janey longs for a real home and the chance to make friends. When Mom gets sick and the Larkins don't have rent money. Janey offers to pay the rent with her beloved treasure - the beautiful blue willow plate that once belonged to her great-great-grandmother. Losing the plate seems like the end of the world to Janey, but it's really the befinning of something wonderful. 154 pages
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  • Blue Willow

    Doris Gates, Paul Lantz

    Hardcover (Viking Press, Aug. 16, 1966)
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  • Blue Willow

    Doris Gates

    Hardcover (Viking Juvenile, Jan. 1, 1940)
    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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  • Blue Willow, 1968 rebound hardcover

    Doris Gates

    Library Binding (The Viking Press, Aug. 16, 1968)
    Blue Willow, 1968 rebound hardcover
  • Blue Willow

    Doris Gates

    Hardcover (The Viking Press, Aug. 16, 1963)
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  • Blue Willow

    doris gates

    Hardcover (Viking Press, Aug. 16, 1968)
    A little girl's treasured possession is a blue willow plate. More than anything, she wants a permanent home and school. her family comes to valley that strongly resembles the picture on her plate, and she hopes that this will become their home.
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  • Blue Willow by Doris Gates

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    Hardcover (Perfection Learning, March 15, 1711)
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  • Blue willow

    Doris Gates

    Paperback (Scholastic, Aug. 16, 1990)
    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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  • Blue Willow

    Doris Gates, Paul Lantz

    Library Binding (Paw Prints 2007-06-28, June 28, 2007)
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  • Blue Willow: 2

    Doris Gates

    Paperback (Dutton Juvenile, Sept. 15, 1969)
    Book by Doris Gates
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