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Surviving the Sand : My Family's Struggle to Farm the Pasco Desert
Title
Surviving the Sand : My Family's Struggle to Farm the Pasco Desert / Helen Lingscheit Heavirland ; illustrations by Caryn Lawton.
ISBN
9781638640202
9781638640042
Publication
Pullman, WA : Basalt Books, [2022]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023
Copyright Notice Date
©[2022]
Physical Description
1 online resource (270 pages): illustrations ;
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
"Soon after Columbia Basin Project irrigation opens, logger R. W. Lingscheit moves his family to the Pasco, Washington, desert. In Surviving the Sand, seven-year-old Helen shares their hardscrabble yet heartwarming story-one full of arduous work and incredibly tough times, but also love and laughter-as they chase her father's seemingly impossible dreams"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2023.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 03, 2023
Audience
Ages 10 and up Basalt Books.
Contents
The setting of the story
Home?
Into the unknown
Little house
New normal
Again
Let the farming begin
Wind
Aftermath
Burst of beauty
Cooling
Thanksgiving
Rich
Winter
Seeds
Bad news, good news
The move
For me?
Brr-rr-rr
Merry Christmas
Back to the shack?
Where's home?
Mom didn't look back
Moving
Starting over
If only ...
Progress
Weeds
Tractor training
Uninvited guests
Christmas commotion
Deep freeze
A Lot of Chicken Little
Eggs and space
The race is on
Crew shrinks, work doesn't
Why did I ever want to drive?
What if ...?
Goals
Dreams and dread
Big house
Home
Epilogue
and now?
Subjects
Genre/Form
Juvenile works.
Creative nonfiction.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Creative nonfiction
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