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The Horseback Librarians
The Horseback Librarians
Jane Yolen
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ISBN: 9780807562918
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Publication Date: 6/22/23
Binding: Hardcover
Age Range: -
Grade Range: P-03
Series: ,
Pages:
Language: English
BISAC: Juvenile Fiction, Girls & Women, Historical, United States - 20th Century, and Books & Libraries
Related Subjects: Packhorse librarians, Books and reading, Kentucky, and Picture books
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Description
Anna Mary brings books to children and adults in Appalachia during the Great Depression.
There were no libraries in the backwoods of Kentucky in the 1930s. Librarians there and throughout the South delivered books to families by horseback and mule, sleeping outdoors or sheltering in barns when they could, going from farm to farm in remote areas. In this story, a woman named Anna Mary stands in for all the real-life horseback librarians who helped keep the love of books alive in Appalachia during the Great Depression.