Purely Rosie Pearl

Patricia Cochrane. Yearling Books, $3.99 (144pp) ISBN 978-0-440-41344-8

This ""quiet, insightful"" novel about migrant farm workers in the 1930s constructs an ""impressively lifelike portrait of a tenacious, close-knit family,"" noted PW. Ages 9-12. (Aug.)

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