Leah Johnson
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra where she plans to study medicine--but when that scholarship falls through...
Author
Publisher
Mennonite Press
Pub. Date
�1976
Language
English
Description
The sod house is a unique part of our Plains heritage, and no one paints the soddy better than Leah Johnson. "The Sod House Painter," from Montezuma, Kansas. Besides doing a number of paintings and drawings for the book, Mrs. Johnson paints mostly from old photographs of sod houses, and she helped to collect the photographs used in this book.