This is a new favorite in our home. Here we sit, with dust in the air and budgeting every single penny. We even recently got a couple of old ringer washers from an auction (though ours are electric instead of gas powered) for backup in case our front-loader kicks the bucket. So much of Keepin' It Together hits home with our family. We had two girls first and they were older before #3 came along. A little school house in Beaver County is our favorite place to have special events for our children. Our oldest's Sweet 16 Purity Party was there and the oldest two had their Jr./Sr. Music Recital there. It's definitely a special place in the community still today. Some chapters in this book had us about in tears for the characters and some had us in stitches, laughing so hard. Our children were so involved, they wanted ...WANTED... to take turns reading! Whoohoo! I love, LOVE, LOVE a book that makes my children want to read it themselves! The end did leave us wondering. Our 13 year old has dubbed it a 'cliff hanger' and is looking forward to a 2nd. I surely hope Mrs. Frantz decides to write a sequel. If you need a good Historical fiction for the Dust Bowl years that is clean and safe for your family, GET THIS BOOK! It's a lovely little story, fictional, but based on real life in the Panhandle of Oklahoma in the 1930's.
Description: Keepin' It Together, set in the Oklahoma Panhandle during the Depression / Dust Bowl days of the 1930's, tells the story of Ada Joyce and her family, who by sheer will to survive and succeed, overcome monumental tasks and difficulties to show a true picture of life during those trying times. Author Virginia Frantz lived those times, and was recently interviewed for Ken Burns' documentary, "Dust Bowl", on PBS.
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Author Bio: Virginia Frantz, mother of seven, was raised on a farm in Beaver County, Oklahoma. At age 42 she returned to Oklahoma Panhandle State University to finish her education degree. She then taught in the Guymon, Oklahoma, School system for 20 years and following that, was a student teacher supervisor at OPSU for four years and later substituted in the Guymon School classrooms until 2009, when she chose to work full time on her writing.
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VirginiaFrantz.com (She even offers free lesson plans for grades 4-8!) You can also purchase her book at amazon ---> ( Kindle is $5.99 ) |
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