{"product_id":"9781561649358","title":"A Land Remembered Goes To School","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn elementary school teacher's manual for using \u003ci\u003eA Land Remembered\u003c\/i\u003e to teach language arts, social studies, and science coordinated with the Sunshine State Standards of the Florida Department of Education.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this best-selling novel, Patrick Smith tells the story of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family who battle the hardships of the frontier to rise from a dirt-poor Cracker life to the wealth and standing of real estate tycoons. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias MacIvey arrives in the Florida wilderness to start a new life with his wife and infant son, and ends two generations later in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that the land has been exploited far beyond human need.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sweeping story that emerges is a rich, rugged Florida history featuring a memorable cast of crusty, indomitable Crackers battling wild animals, rustlers, Confederate deserters, mosquitoes, starvation, hurricanes, and freezes to carve a kingdom out of the swamp. But their most formidable adversary turns out to be greed, including finally their own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLove and tenderness are here too: the hopes and passions of each new generation, friendships with the persecuted blacks and Indians, and respect for the land and its wildlife.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatrick Smith's novel is now available for young readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiddle School teacher's manual\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSee all of the books in this series\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield Publishers, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137734295792,"sku":"9781561649358","price":5.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781561649358_p0.jpg?v=1769899645","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781561649358","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}