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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.
- Author
- Heavirland, Helen, 1946-
- Publication
- Pullman, WA : Basalt Books, [2022]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 23-559 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
Details
- Description
- xii, 256 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- 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"--
- Subject
- Heavirland, Helen, 1946- > Childhood and youth > Juvenile literature
- Columbia Basin Project (U.S.) > Juvenile literature
- Columbia Basin Project (U.S.)
- Girls > Washington (State) > Pasco > Biography > Juvenile literature
- Farm life > Washington (State) > Pasco > Juvenile literature
- Childhood and youth of a person
- Farm life
- Girls
- Girls > Juvenile literature
- Children > Juvenile literature
- Children
- Pasco (Wash.) > Biography > Juvenile literature
- Washington (State) > Pasco
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Creative nonfiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Audience (note)
- Ages 10 and up
- 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?
- Call Number
- JFE 23-559
- ISBN
- 9781638640042
- 1638640041
- LCCN
- 2022033442
- OCLC
- 1341840224
- Author
- Heavirland, Helen, 1946- author.
- Title
- Surviving the sand : my family's struggle to farm the Pasco Desert / Helen Lingscheit Heavirland ; illustrations by Caryn Lawton.
- Publisher
- Pullman, WA : Basalt Books, [2022]
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Audience
- Ages 10 and up Basalt Books.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 23-559