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Roundabout America
Series · 10 books · 1952-1966

Books in series

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#1

Peanuts for Billy Ben

1952

The story of a farm family of southern Virginia whose work and play is regulated year-round by their peanut crop.
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#2

We Live in the South

1952

Four stories illustrating life in the South: Piney woods girl - The quiet one - A real fisherman - Big old alligator.
#3

Project Boy

1954

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#4

We Live in the City

1954

Mike the newsboy, Angelo a Shoeshine boy and Shirley a rich penthouse girl are feel for an artistically sensitive story of city life that stretches through the year. The stories of the three children, who live near each other and all have nodding acquaintances, are told separately, but each one enters into the other. Selling papers in the cold winter, Mike tries to get Angelo to help him, sees Shirley come and go in taxi cabs, is given permission by Finnegan the cop to sell papers in a warm restaurant.. Shirley worries about her birthday party, her poodle Fifi, then meets Mike, who is always overjoyed to get what she throws out in the trash barrel, for some pleasant skating in the park.. Angelo's family is evicted, but his father gets another job and Angelo starts to shine shoes in the restaurant with Mike. A vigorous, entirely unsentimental social comment here paints life in its inevitably trying ironies, and its equally inevitable triumphs. (Kirkus)
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#5

Berries in the Scoop

a Cape Cod Cranberry Story

1956

Picturecover Hardback.
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#6

We Live by the River

1956

children's collectible hardcover
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#7

Little Sioux Girl

1958

A series of children's short stories set on a South Dakota Native American reservation. Part of the Roundabout America series of books introducing elementary children to the geography and cultures of America.
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#8

We Live in the Country

1960

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#9

We Live in the Southwest

1962

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#11

High Rise Secret

1966

Peggy, who lives in a high-rise project in a large city on Lake Erie, tries to make friends and help the project become a better, safer place to live by joining the fight against some aggresive young hoodlums.

Author

Lois Lenski
Lois Lenski
Author · 62 books

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.

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