Margaret (Sunfire) [Paperback]

Jane Claypool Miner (Author)

Book Description

Series: Sunfire | Publication Date: January 1988

Her new life as a prairie schoolteacher means hardship -- and love. Teaching in a one-room prairie schoolhouse in Nebraska in 1886 means more than giving lessons to 32 very different students. For 15-year-old Margaret, who has left Chicago to start a new life, it also means learning to survive savage blizzards, a deadly plague, and awful loneliness. Then she meets Gerald, the handsome young easterner who is teaching in a nearby town. And she finds herself drawn more and more to brooding, handsome Robert, the 18-year-old farmer's son who is her worst pupil.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks; PF edition (January 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0590411918
• ISBN-13: 978-0590411912
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #447,350 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jane Claypool Miner has written over 80 books for young adults. Some of them were written using the pen-name, Veronica Ladd. She enjoyed working as a junior and senior high school teacher before she became an author. In 1981 she was named Writer of the Year by the Society of Children's Book Writers. Her best-selling book, Dreams Can Come True, sold over a million copies and was translated into seven languages.

She has been a Religious Science minister for the last 25 years and now writes on self-help and spiritual topics as Jane Claypool. Dr. Jane was awarded both an honorary doctorate and the Raymond Charles Barker Writing Award by Religious Science International. Her best known spiritual books are Wise Women don't worry, Wise Women don't sing the blues and Science of Mind Skills.

Currently she writes a popular blog, www.janeclaypool.com, and is working on a series of short books on spiritual topics.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cool!, February 22, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Margaret (Sunfire) (Paperback)

Margaret has come to the prairie to be a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse. But it's more then she bargained for. She must cope with disobediant students, a deadly epidemic, lonliness, a prairie fire, and choosing between two men who love her.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A 15-year-old teacher finds the life she wants., April 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Margaret (Sunfire) (Paperback)

I really like this book. It's about an 8th grade graduate went off to the wild Nebraska in the 1800's. Margaret was only 15 years old! i'm gonna be 15 soon too but i can't even think of going off in my own, left alone doing it! She had a hard time fitting in with the town, the house of the Principal which she was boarding and the one-room school. But she grows as the days pass and found love with her 18-year-old student.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Margaret, October 22, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Margaret (Sunfire) (Paperback)

Margaret is one of the best Sunfires I've ever read. It wasn't like she was dieing to be in love, or that she was even looking for it. What I liked is that she wasn't a perfect girl, unlike in so many of the others, she even admitted to having a appetite! : ) She was a spirited girl, that you can't help but admire. How she tried not to like her student because she was his schoolteacher, I found it commendable that she was fallowing her head, not just her heart. And how she's happy when her landlady gets married to one of her beaus. She actually gave them her best wishes. I would suggest this to any reader, if they are just interested in romance, or the life of a one-room schoolhouse teacher.