A Year Down Yonder
In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 213
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 610
subjects: grandmothers, grandparent and child, country life, grandparent-grandchild relationship, illinois [X], extreme read-spunk, large type books [X], great depression, 1929-1939, historical fiction, depressions, audiobooks, compact discs
The Book Of Ruth
Ruth, a farm girl from Honey Creek, Illinois, reviews the events of her life in an effort to make sense of the violence and tragedy that have plagued her and her family from the time she was a child.
FIC
year: 1997
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 950
subjects: mothers and daughters, mother-daughter relationship, domestic fiction, middle west, large print books, large type books [X], illinois [X]