On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937) Laura Ingalls Wilder (Author) Helen Moore Sewell (Illustrator)
At first, the Ingalls live in a sod house in Minnesota. Then Pa builds a house on Plum Creek, hoping to pay for the materials with his harvest. Suddenly a plague of grasshoppers destroys everything in their path and there is no wheat crop at all.
MAIN CHARACTERS :
Pa Ingalls, Parent, Settler, Laura Ingalls, Child, Settler, Caroline Ingalls, Parent, Settler
SETTING(S) :
Midwest, Minnesota, North America, Plum Creek, United States, West
SUBJECT :
Frontier life
TIME PERIOD :
19th century AD
Gale Document Number: GALE|M1300044416
Gale Database: What Do I Read Next?, 2009
SOURCE CITATION : "On the Banks of Plum Creek." 2009. Books & Authors Gale. Gale Internal User. 20 Nov 2009 <http://books.wiseto.com/bna/start.do?p=BNA&u=gale>