Title: Poor is just a starting place
Description: During the Great Depression, twelve-year-old Artie Wilson, determined to escape plowing and planting the fields and milking the cow on her family's farm, longs to leave Buck Creek, Kentucky, and her life of poverty.
Subjects: Depressions, Family life, Fathers and daughters, Fiction, History, Juvenile fiction, Poverty, Schools
Places: Kentucky
Time periods: 1929, 20th century