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Download or read book The Beet Fields written by Gary Paulsen and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a 16-year-old boy out in the world alone for the first time, every day's an education in the hard work and boredom of migrant labor; every day teaches him something more about friendship, or hunger, or profanity, or lust--always lust. He learns how a poker game, or hitching a ride, can turn deadly. He discovers the secret sadness and generosity to be found on a lonely farm in the middle of nowhere. Then he joins up with a carnival and becomes a grunt, running a ride and shilling for the geek show. He's living the hard carny life and beginning to see the world through carny eyes. He's tough. Cynical. By the end of the summer he's pretty sure he knows it all. Until he meets Ruby.
Download or read book The Beet Fields written by Gary Paulsen and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recalls his experiences as a migrant laborer and carnival worker after he ran away from home at age sixteen.
Download or read book The Beet Fields written by Gary Paulsen and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2002-01-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. Gary Paulsen tells the raw truth of a boy's first summer on his own working as a migrant laborer and carnival grunt.
Download or read book Beet Fields written by Gary Paulsen and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the story of a sixteen-year-old boy who finds employment as a migrant laborer and carnival worker after running away from home.
Download or read book The Cookcamp written by Gary Paulsen and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told through the eyes of a 5-year-old boy, this is a story of adventure and discovery in a cookcamp located in the Canadian woods during World War II.When?: World War IIWhere?: A cookcamp in the Canadian woodsWhy?: He's not really sure. One summer, a 5-year-old boy goes to live with his grandmother in a cookcamp. The camp is home to 9 men who are building a road through the woods. The boy misses his mother, but at the same time the camp becomes home--a special home where he learns to spit and rides the tractor. It's a wonderful summer, but then he lets slip to his grandmother about "Uncle Casey" and she writes seven letters to his mother. Seven letters that she mails "good and hard." A short while later, the boy returns home.
Book Synopsis Child Labor in the Sugar Beet Fields of Michigan by : National Child Labor Committee (U.S.)
Download or read book Child Labor in the Sugar Beet Fields of Michigan written by National Child Labor Committee (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Appendix ... Migrant beet workers, Michigan, 1922. Data from family schedules of 274 contract laborer families" : p. [69]-78.
Download or read book Beet Fields written by Robin Somers and published by . This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olive Post's bucolic farm life is already off kilter when she finds a body in the beet field. She suspects foul play, but when the coroner determines the death a suicide, her investigative instincts and years as a crime reporter kick in. Her tenacious pursuit of evidence strains her marriage and places her young children in danger as she uncovers an ominous scheme that threatens her family and their livelihood. Set on an organic farm in Santa Cruz, California--where even the most altruistic are flawed--Beet Fields underscores the importance of vigilance in an era of insatiable corporate agribusiness. With determination and courage, Olive confronts malevolent forces, struggling to restore the constancy in her home that she has worked diligently to create.
Book Synopsis Second Hoeing by : Hope Williams Sykes
Download or read book Second Hoeing written by Hope Williams Sykes and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Papa?ll work her till she drops in the field!" The backbreaking labor of German-Russian immigrants in the sugarbeet fields of Colorado is described with acute perception inøHope Sykes's Second Hoeing. First published in 1935, the novel was greeted in all quarters as an impressive and authoritative evocation of these recent immigrants and their struggle to realize the promise of their chosen country.
Book Synopsis Child Labor and the Work of Mothers in the Beet Fields of Colorado and Michigan (Classic Reprint) by : U. S. Department Of Labor
Download or read book Child Labor and the Work of Mothers in the Beet Fields of Colorado and Michigan (Classic Reprint) written by U. S. Department Of Labor and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Child Labor and the Work of Mothers in the Beet Fields of Colorado and Michigan Between the last hoeing - that is, about the end of J uly - and the time of harvest an interval of some weeks elapses. The date of beginning the harvest depends upon the sugar content of the beets and is determined by the chemists in the testing stations of the sugar companies. After the beets have been loosened from the soil by a horse-drawn machine known as a lifter, they are pulled up by the hand worker and thrown in piles or rows to be topped. For the latter operation a sharp, heavy knife, about 18 inches long, with a hook at the end, is used. The worker, with the knife grasped in the right hand, hooks up the beet and chops off the crown of leaves with a sharp, downward stroke. All leaves must be cut cleanly away and to do this more than one stroke is frequently required. As the beets, though averaging under 3 pounds with the tops, are often too heavy for a child to hold firmly enough to stand the cut ting stroke of the knife, many children rest the beet on their knee, standing on one foot While they cut the leaves off or top the beet. Where adults and children are working in groups together, the children frequently pull and throw the beets in piles 'for the adults to top; but if there are more children than are needed for pulling, the larger children top and the smaller ones pull and pile. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis North for the Harvest by : Jim Norris
Download or read book North for the Harvest written by Jim Norris and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2009 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout most of the twentieth century, thousands of Mexicans traveled north to work the sugar beet fields of the Red River Valley. North for the Harvest examines the evolving relationships between Amercian Crystal Sugar Company, the sugar beet growers, and the migrant workers. Though popular convention holds that migrant workers were invariably exploited, Norris reveals that these relationships were more complex. The company often clashed with growers, sometimes while advocating for workers. And many growers developed personal ties with their workers, while workers themselves often found ways to leverage better pay and working conditions from the company. Ultimately, the lot of workers improved as the years went by. As one worker explained, something historic occurred for his family while working in the Red River Valley: "We broke the chain there."
Download or read book Mudshark written by Gary Paulsen and published by Wendy Lamb Books. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mudshark is the go-to guy for any mysteries that need solving. Lost your shoe? Can’t find your homework? Ask Mudshark. That is, until the Psychic Parrot takes up residence in the school library and threatens to overturn Mudshark’s position as the guy who knows all the answers. The word in school is that the parrot can out-think Mudshark. And right now, the school needs someone who’s good at solving problems. There’s an escaped gerbil running rampant, an emergency in the faculty restroom, and all the erasers are disappearing from the classrooms. When Mudshark solves the mystery of who’s stealing the erasers, he discovers the culprit has the best of intentions. Now he has to think of a way to prevent the Psychic Parrot from revealing the eraser-thief’s identity. With a bit of misdirection and a lot of quick thinking, Mudshark restores order to the chaos . . . just for the moment.
Book Synopsis Sugar-beet Culture in the Intermountain Area with Curly Top Resistant Varieties by : Bion Tolman
Download or read book Sugar-beet Culture in the Intermountain Area with Curly Top Resistant Varieties written by Bion Tolman and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tallgrass written by Sandra Dallas and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her life turned upside-down when a Japanese internment camp is opened in their small Colorado town, Rennie witnesses the way her community places suspicion on the newcomers when a young girl is murdered.
Book Synopsis Factories in the Field by : Carey McWilliams
Download or read book Factories in the Field written by Carey McWilliams and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-04-15 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was the first broad exposé of the social and environmental damage inflicted by the growth of corporate agriculture in California. Factories in the Field—together with the work of Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and John Steinbeck—dramatizes the misery of the dust bowl migrants hoping to find work in California agriculture. McWilliams starts with the scandals of the Spanish land grant purchases, and continues on to examine the experience of the various ethnic groups that have provided labor for California's agricultural industry—Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Filipinos, Armenians—the strikes, and the efforts to organize labor unions
Book Synopsis Progress of the Beet-sugar Industry in the United States by : United States. Dept. of Agriculture
Download or read book Progress of the Beet-sugar Industry in the United States written by United States. Dept. of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Progress of the Beet-sugar Industry in the United States, 1897-1909 by : United States. Department of Agriculture
Download or read book Progress of the Beet-sugar Industry in the United States, 1897-1909 written by United States. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Progress of the Beet-sugar Industry in the United States, 1905 by : United States. Department of Agriculture
Download or read book Progress of the Beet-sugar Industry in the United States, 1905 written by United States. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
