
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois\_Lenski Many of Lenski's books can be collated into 'series' - but since they don't have to be read in order, you may be better off just looking for more information here: http://library.illinoisstate.edu/uniq... Probably her most famous set is the following: American Regional Series Beginning with Bayou Suzette in 1943, Lois Lenski began writing a series of books which would become known as her "regional series." In the early 1940s Lenski, who suffered from periodic bouts of ill-health, was told by her doctor that she needed to spend the winter months in a warmer climate than her Connecticut home. As a result, Lenski and her husband Arthur Covey traveled south each fall. Lenski wrote in her autobiography, "On my trips south I saw the real America for the first time. I saw and learned what the word region meant as I witnessed firsthand different ways of life unlike my own. What interested me most was the way children were living" (183). In Journey Into Childhood, Lenski wrote that she was struck by the fact that there were "plenty of books that tell how children live in Alaska, Holland, China, and Mexico, but no books at all telling about the many ways children live here in the United States" Bayou Suzette. Strawberry Girl. Blue Ridge Billy. Judy's Journey. Boom Town Boy. Cotton in My Sack. Texas Tomboy. Prairie School. Corn-Farm Boy. San Francisco Boy. Flood Friday. Houseboat Girl. Coal Camp Girl. Shoo-Fly Girl. To Be a Logger. Deer Valley Girl.

1937

Lois Lenski's Novels of Childhood
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Lois Lenski's Novels of Childhood
2017

1943

a Cape Cod Cranberry Story
1956

1949

1940

1948

1938

1971

1959

1954

1949

1949

1969

1970

1972

1968

1956

1971

1966

1957

1950

The Story of Mary Jemison
1941

The Autobiography of Lois Lenski
1972

1947

1958

1980

1980

1953

1980

1948

1948

1939

2005

1951

1952

Her Book
1936

1962

1951

1954

1944

1955

1963

1965

1985

1945

1945

1950

1936