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One-Room School Hardcover - 1999
by Bial, Raymond
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- Title One-Room School
- Author Bial, Raymond
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition, F
- Condition New
- Pages 48
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
- Date 1999-09-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # Q-0395905141
- ISBN 9780395905142 / 0395905141
- Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
- Dimensions 8.81 x 10.59 x 0.44 in (22.38 x 26.90 x 1.12 cm)
- Ages 10 to 12 years
- Grade levels 5 - 7
- Library of Congress subjects Schools - History, Rural schools - United States - History -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98043241
- Dewey Decimal Code 370.917
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Summary
Plum Grove, Prairie Rose, Possum Hollow, Good Intent, and Apple Pie-for 250 years one-room schools with names like these existed across America. Blessed with remoteness, small size, and simplicity, most of them offered not only a safe place to learn, but also a family-like setting and an education rooted in community. Ray Bial's camera eloquently captures the wistful-looking little buildings of logs, sod, wood, or stone, and his narrative, spiced with quotes from the teachers and students who spent so much time there, brings to life both the charm and hardships of our rural schools. As readers imagine a school without buses and computers, hot lunch programs and gymnasiums, they will also marvel at these students' determination to learn in a single room, poorly-heated and simply furnished with puncheon benches and slate pencils.