Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass

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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992 - Art - 120 pages
A prose poem tribute to a vanishing way of life. Award-winning writer Gary Paulsen has created a lyrical masterpiece rich with unforgettable vignettes that weave a seamless fabric--stories of love and death, cold and heat, crops and stock, rolling hills and hay so sweet you could eat the grass. Never has there been such a farm story. 9 full-color paintings.

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Foreword
SPRING
SUMMER
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Copyright

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About the author (1992)

Gary Paulsen was born on May 17, 1939 in Minnesota. He was working as a satellite technician for an aerospace firm in California when he realized he wanted to be a writer. He left his job and spent the next year in Hollywood as a magazine proofreader. His first book, Special War, was published in 1966. He has written more than 175 books for young adults including Brian's Winter, Winterkill, Harris and Me, Woodsong, Winterdance, The Transall Saga, Soldier's Heart, This Side of Wild, and Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books. Hatchet, Dogsong, and The Winter Room are Newbery Honor Books. He was the recipient of the 1997 Margaret A. Edwards Award for his lifetime achievement in writing for young adults.

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