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Down Cut Shin Creek
the pack horse librarians of Kentucky
By Appelt, Kathi & Schmitzer, Jeanne Cannella
- ISBN
- 978-0-06029-244-7
- Publisher
- New York : HarperCollins, c2001.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 2001
Gr 4-6 Imagine a cold, steep trip up a mountain path; it is icy and a light rain falls. A woman is riding an old horse and has a bag full of books to deliver. The families she stops to see are waiting for her, a one-room schoolhouse full of children greet her at the door. One woman walks nine miles to meet her and exchange her books and magazines. This is a day in the life of a pack-horse librarian. From 1935 to 1943, local Kentucky women were paid a meage...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
