Tales from the home place

By Shelley Dale, Harriet Burandt

Subjects: Short stories, Farm life, Depressions, fiction, Girls, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Texas, fiction, Family life

Description: Eight stories capture the life of twelve-year-old Irene Hutto, growing up on a cotton farm in Texas in the 1930s, based on the life of Harriet Burandt's mother. Life is one adventure after another for Irene Hutto and her family who live on a Texas cotton farm during the Depression.