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A girl's abiding love for her Nebraska home is shaken with the arrival of a frail young city woman who cannot endure the harsh pioneer life. Ages 10-up.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal

Gr 5-8 The Nebraska prairie was a barren place that offered beauty and peace to some, loneliness and madness to others. Prairie Songs provides a beautifully written insight into this contrast. Louisa and her shy brother Lester live quite contentedly with their parents when the new doctor arrives with his beautiful and fragile pregnant wife, Emmeline. All work to help the new couple adjust to harsh weather, buffalo chips, soddies and Indians; Emmeline agrees to teach the children some reading. After a terrible fright, she goes into premature labor; her baby is stillborn, and Emmeline is reduced to madness. The children notice Emmeline's loneliness and growing madness with sadness, but they accept prairie life for what it is. Conrad artfully deals with all the harsh facts in this fast-paced novel which leaves readers with a real feeling for the difficulties of pioneer life. Children may well appreciate modern medicine and communication, not to mention suburbia, after reading this poignant story. Dorcas Hand, Episcopal High School, Bellaire, Tex.

Copyright 1985 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

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The prairie was like a giant plate stretching all the way to the sky at the edges. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Doc Berryman, New York, Grand Island, Emmeline Berryman, Independence Day, Jesse James, Louisa Downing, Yellow Wolf, Canvey Whitfield, Carney Whitfield, Central City, Just Delilah, Pru Whitfield, Solomon Butcher New!
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