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Product Details
Aladdin, May 2000
Trade Paperback, 176 pages
ISBN-10: 0689835221
ISBN-13: 9780689835223
Grades: 4 - 6
Description
In 1874, eleven-year-old Sam White and his family are moving from Kentucky to the Dakota Territory. These hardy pioneers know it will be hard work, but they don't expect the devastating plague that comes like an unstoppable force to sweep away all their hopes for the future. They will cope.
But they will never forget this grasshopper summer.
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Ann Turner recreates a quintessential American experience
-- a pioneer trek to the Dakota Territory and the tragic loss of a harvest. A beautifully written book.
Horn Book
Both a family story and an account of pioneer living, the book is accessible as well as informative.
School Library Journal
A good realistic novel of frontier life.
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