Across the Fruited Plain
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- First published
- 1940
- Pages
- 107Digital edition
- Language
- English
- Reading difficulty
- 4 of 10
A little about the story
The children of America's migrant farm workers travel with their families from harvest to harvest, picking fruit and vegetables across the country. This book tells their stories, and the stories of the church centres that cared for them while their parents worked.
Florence Crannell Means, a Newbery Honor author, wrote it to help children understand lives very different from their own.
Things You May Not Know About Across the Fruited Plain
- Published by the Friendship Press in 1940.
- Illustrated by Janet Smalley.
- By a Newbery Honor winner. Means won the honor in 1946 for The Moved-Outers.
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Part of Freebookia's children's classics collection, added November 2026.
