Handful of stars by Lord, Cynthia 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2015)

BTSB #: 587014 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.4 MG RC: 4.3 3-5

Genres: Multicultural Family Life Animals

Subjects: Migrant labor - Fiction Latinos (U.S.) - Fiction Blind dogs - Fiction Dogs - Fiction Grandparents - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Blueberry industry - Fiction Maine - Fiction

Summary: When her blind dog slips his collar, twelve-year old Lily meets Salma Santiago, a young Hispanic girl whose migrant family is in Maine for the blueberry-picking season, and, based partly on their mutual love of dogs, the two forge a friendship while painting bee boxes for Lily's grandfather--but as the Blueberry Queen pageant approaches Lily and Selma are confronted with some of the hard truths of prejudice and migrant life.

Handful of stars by Lord, Cynthia 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC ;)

BTSB #: P02978 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Multicultural Family Life Animals

Subjects: Migrant labor - Fiction Latinos (U.S.) - Fiction Blind dogs - Fiction Dogs - Fiction Grandparents - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Blueberry industry - Fiction Maine - Fiction

Summary: When her blind dog slips his collar, twelve-year old Lily meets Salma Santiago, a young Hispanic girl whose migrant family are in Maine for the blueberry-picking season, and, based partly on their mutual love of dogs, the two forge a friendship while painting bee boxes for Lily's grandfather--but as the Blueberry Queen pageant approaches Lily and Salma are confronted with some of the hard truths of prejudice and migrant life.

Ruby's hope : a story of how the famous "Migrant Mother" photograph became the face of the Great Depression by Kulling, Monica 

BTSB Prebound(Page Street Kids, 2019)

BTSB #: 534236 Available

Dewey: EAges: 5-8   
AR: 3.6 LG Lexile: 660

Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Lange, Dorothea - Fiction Great Depression, 1929-1939 - Fiction Family life - Fiction Poverty - Fiction Migrant labor - Fiction Photographs - Fiction

Summary: During the Great Depression, seven-year-old Ruby's family leaves their Oklahoma home to seek work in California, where Ruby meets Dorothea Lange, who takes a photograph that becomes known as "Migrant mother."

Three strike summer by Schrempp, Skyler 

BTSB Prebound(Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2022)

BTSB #: 789891 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.9 MG Lexile: 770

Genres: Sports Historical Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Baseball - Fiction Agricultural laborers - Fiction Migrant labor - Fiction Family life - California - Fiction California - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: Dust Bowl refugee Gloria Mae Willard finds herself uprooted and working on a California peach orchard, where she tries to join the secret, all-boys baseball team that she's desperate to play on.