Showing posts with label American Regional Series. Show all posts
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Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Lois Lenski's American Regional Series

American Regional Series by Lois Lenski
In our previous posts, we have mentioned Lois Lenski's American Regional Series. The first book of this series is Bayou Suzette. It was published in 1943. Lois Lenski received the Martha Kinney Cooper Ohioana Library Award in 1944 for this book. She also received Newbery Medal in 1945 for one of her best selling book Strawberry Girl (1945). Other famous books of the regional series include Houseboat Girl, Coal Camp Girl, Corn Farm Boy, Boom Town Boy, Prairie School, Cotton in my Sack.