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Flora Wallis Foss

Born: 1949 in Carterville, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Foss was born in Carterville, Illinois.

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Primary Literary Genre(s): Non-Fiction; Poetry

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers; Children; Young adult readers

Flora Wallis Foss on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=flora+wallis+foss

Selected Titles

  A voice for her people
ISBN: 0021850666 OCLC: 123079657

McGraw-Hill School Division, New York, N.Y. : [2000?]

The story of Delores Huerta and how she overcame humble beginnings to help Cesar Chavez form the National Farm Workers Association to help migrant laborers.
Mexico /
ISBN: 0822446324 OCLC: 27919097

Fearon/Janus/Quercus, Belmont, CA : ©1993.

  Traveling inland :
ISBN: 0962703176 OCLC: 429910515

Stone and Scott, Sherman Oaks, Calif. : ©1994.

 

 

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