On the Banks of Plum Creek
A Newbery Honor Award Winner
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The adventures ofLaura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on theprairie and travel in their covered wagon to Minnesota. Here they settle in alittle house made of sod beside the banks of beautiful Plum Creek. Soon Pabuilds a wonderful new little house with real glass windows and a hinged door.Laura and her sister Mary go to school, help with the chores, and fish in thecreek. At night everyone listens to the merry music of Pa's fiddle.Misfortunes come in the form of a grasshopper plague and a terrible blizzard,but the pioneer family works hard together to overcome thesetroubles.
And so continues Laura Ingalls Wilder'sbeloved story of a pioneer girl and her family. The nine Little House bookshave been cherished by generations of readers as both a unique glimpse intoAmerica's frontier past and a heartwarming, unforgettablestory.
About this Author
Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in 1867 in the log cabin described in Little House in the Big Woods. She and her family traveled by covered wagon across the Midwest. Later, Laura and her husband, Almanzo Wilder, made their own covered-wagon trip with their daughter, Rose, to Mansfield, Missouri. There, believing in the importance of knowing where you began in order to appreciate how far you've come, Laura wrote about her childhood growing up on the American frontier. For millions of readers Laura lives on forever as the little pioneer girl in the beloved Little House books.
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