Judy lives in a tent with her family.
Lenski died in 1974..
She also received a Newbery Honor in 1942 for Indian Captive, a fictionalized account of the life of Mary Jemison.
Her novel of Florida farm life, Strawberry Girl, won the Newbery Award in 1946.
She did meticulous research and spoke with children and adults in the various regions to create stories depicting the lives of the inhabitants of those areas.
For her Regional America series, Lenski traveled to each of the places that became a subject of one of her books. -The Horn Book Magazine Born in Springfield, Ohio, in 1893, Lois Lenski achieved acclaim as both an author and illustrator of children\'s literature. a valuable revelation of the deprivation and poverty of these homeless American workers who pick most of the vegetables that we buy. . .
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Will her family ever have a farm of their own? Judy\'s Journey is a realistic depiction of the life of migrant farm workers in the mid-1900s.
Judy likes the people she meets along the way, but she longs for a real home.
It\'s hard for her to catch up in school; it\'s hard to make and keep friends.
Every time Judy feels as if they\'re beginning to put down roots, they have to move on.
Starting in Alabama, they travel to Florida and up the East Coast all the way to New Jersey, always looking for steady work.
Will they ever be able to afford a farm with a real house? Ten-year-old Judy and her family are migrants, moving from farm to farm with each new season.
Judy lives in a tent with her family
