- Blizzards, Juvenile fiction, Families, Frontier and pioneer life
After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather.
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About the book
- Author
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- First published
- October 1999
- Pages
- 335
- Publisher
- CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Flammarion, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 62
- Language
- French, Spanish, Polish, heb
- ISBN
- 9780606038461
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“THE MOWING MACHINE'S whirring sounded cheerfully from the old buffalo wallow south of the claim shanty, where bluestem grass stood thick and tall and Pa was cutting it for hay.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder was an American writer known for the Little House on the Prairie series of children's novels (1932 to 1943) based on her childhood in a settler family, which were the basis for the television series 'Little House on the Prairie' during the 1970s and early 1980s.
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