Up the Tracks to Grandma's
Publication Information
Author:  Hendershot, Judith	Illustrator:  Allen, Thomas B.
Title:  Up the Tracks to Grandma's	Date:  1993
Publisher:  Knopf	City:  New York
ISBN, paperback:  0-679-81964-9	ISBN, hardback:
Recommended audience:
ABE/ABLE:   Yes	ESOL:
Family:   Yes	Young Adult:
Picture:   Yes
General Information:
Book Type(s):    fiction, easy reading
HSE Descriptor(s):
Summary:
A girl describes her visits to her grandmother's home in a small-town Ohio in the middle 1900s, a time when her widowed grandmother plucked her own chickens, shoveled her own coal, and could not read English.
Teaching Ideas:
This book may spark family histories and story telling. Students may want to interview members of an older generation about the details of their days and lives. For more information about Appalachia, look at website (http://cass.etsu.edu/archives/) For additional books on family history and Ohio history see the Family History and the Ohio History Matrices
Teaching Strategies:
Matrices or Charts    http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/matrices_charts.pdf
Keywords: select any link below for a list of resources which also have that keyword
Family > family history Family > grandparents History > region > Ohio Communities > rural > small town life Geography > locations > U.S. states/regions > Appalachia

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