Lois Lenski’s American Regional Series Series
A series of seventeen novels about children from different parts of America.
Books in the Lois Lenski’s American Regional Series series:
Bayou Suzette (1943)
The daily adventures of two girls on Bayou Barataria.
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Lois Lenski
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Lois Lenski
Strawberry Girl (1945)
Birdie Boyer and her family move to Florida to raise strawberries.
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Lois Lenski
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Lois Lenski
Blue Ridge Billy (1946)
A story about life in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina, before the coming of the motor car.
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Lois Lenski
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Lois Lenski
Judy’s Journey (1947)
The story of a family of migrant farm workers.
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Lois Lenski
Boom Town Boy (1948)
One family lives the excitement of the Oklahoma oil boom.
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Lois Lenski
Cotton in My Sack (1949)
A story about the life of Arkansas field laborers.
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Lois Lenski
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Lois Lenski
Texas Tomboy (1950)
There is a drought in cattle country in this story of Charlotte and her ranching family.
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Lois Lenski
Prairie School (1951)
A story of school children in South Dakota and how they ‘fought the winter through.’
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Lois Lenski
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Lois Lenski
Mama Hattie’s Girl (1953)
A young African American girl experiences life in both the south, Florida, and the north, New York City in the 1950’s.
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Lois Lenski
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Lois Lenski
Corn Farm Boy (1954)
The life of an Iowa farm family.
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Lois Lenski
San Francisco Boy (1955)
A story about a family of Chinese Americans who live in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
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Lois Lenski
Flood Friday (1956)
When a Vermont town is inundated by flood waters, the townspeople seek refuge in the high school.
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Lois Lenski
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Lois Lenski
Houseboat Girl (1957)
Patsy spends the summer on a houseboat on the Mississippi River.
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Clyde Robert Bulla
Lois Lenski
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Lois Lenski
Coal Camp Girl (1959)
Tina and her family live in a West Virginia coal mining town and her father and brothers are miners.
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Lois Lenski
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Lois Lenski
Shoo-Fly Girl (1963)
A story about a six year old Amish girl and her family.
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Lois Lenski
To Be a Logger (1967)
Joel grows up in a logging family in Oregon.
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Lois Lenski
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Lois Lenski
Deer Valley Girl (1968)
Two Vermont families are reconciled after a three-generation feud.
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Author(s):
Lois Lenski
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Lois Lenski