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Highlights
- Like most everybody else in the middle of the Great Depression, sixteen-year-old Liberty Justice Jones is, well, stuck.
- WILLA Literary Award (Children/Young Adult) 2013 1st Winner
- 200 Pages
- Juvenile Fiction, Girls & Women
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About the Book
In the midst of the Great Depression, 15-year old Liberty Justice Jones searches for a way to go to college--and to help her mother save their ailing Texas farm, where they're trying out a new crop: Christmas trees. She jumps at the chance to win a $500 prize for the best tree for the state capitol.Book Synopsis
Like most everybody else in the middle of the Great Depression, sixteen-year-old Liberty Justice Jones is, well, stuck. But living smack-dab in the Lost Pines of Texas, where anyone can walk into the forest and chop a tree for free, with a debt-burdened mom who's trying to make a go of a newfangled idea called a Christmas tree farm--that's stuck bad. Especially if your dream is college. Liberty's only hope is her own wits. But if she's so smart, she wonders, why can't she figure out a way to help their family and get off this wreck of a farm? Learning of the five-hundred-dollar prize for the most beautiful Christmas tree delivered to the state capitol in Austin, Liberty hatches a plot. With the aid of their aging draft horse, Quiller, their derelict tractor, Stella, and Rudy, a kid pulled between America and Mexico and fresh off the rails, she's determined to take home the honors. With the sparkling dialogue and spunky humor that fans have come to love in her heroines, and a perceptive eye and ear for historical detail, award-winning author Randall Platt takes readers young and old on a spirited adventure set in a time when dreams were all many folks had. Also 04 Activeable in e-book formats, 978-0-89672-774-8Dimensions (Overall): 9.1 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .9 Inches (D)
Weight: .95 Pounds
Suggested Age: 12-15 Years
Number of Pages: 200
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Sub-Genre: Girls & Women
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Format: Hardcover
Author: Randall Platt
Language: English
Street Date: August 20, 2012
TCIN: 88983675
UPC: 9780896727663
Item Number (DPCI): 247-57-8191
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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