The Long Winter (Little House)

Paperback, 422 pages

English language

Published Jan. 2, 2007 by HarperTrophy.

ISBN:
978-0-06-088542-7
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OCLC Number:
78895483

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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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If you know me at all, you know how much I hate being cold. Winter is the worst! This book is my worst nightmare. Snow. Way below zero temps. Freezing winds. No food. I like to think I am a hearty pioneer gal, but in my heart I know I love food and sunshine way too much. But, much like Laura, I would survive, because I'm strong like a bull.

A comically stereotypical Indian, straight from central casting, walks into the store in town and warns the white people that a big heap long winter is coming. He's basically ignored by everyone but Pa and the Wilder Boys, because they are smarter than everyone else. Plus handsome and talented and funny. But I digress. The winter comes, the trains stop, and the whole town is on the brink of death. Literally. Luckily for the entire town of DeSmet, Almanzo and …

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Subjects

  • Historical - United States - 19th Century
  • Classics
  • Juvenile Fiction
  • Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
  • Children: Grades 3-4
  • Family - General
  • Juvenile Fiction / Historical / United States / 19th Century
  • Historical - General
  • Blizzards
  • Family life
  • Fiction
  • Frontier and pioneer life
  • South Dakota
  • Children's 9-12 - Literature - Classics / Contemporary