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Tracing this policy back to its origins

This fact-filled nonfiction title includes real-life examples

how they use language to learn and the role of adults in the process

Nothing but the Dirt Steven J. Diner because that is what wasIn this work of creative nonfiction, author Kate Benz provides an intimate look at the present day residents of Courtland, Kansas (population 285), a town whose economy depends almost entirely on agriculture. Through charming, first person accounts, Nothing but the Dirt: Stories from an American Farm Town tells the whole story of life in Courtland, bucking the "Rural America is dying" narrative that so often proliferates national headlines about small