In the land of the big red apple - Softcover

MacBride, Roger Lea

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0439154375 ISBN 13: 9780439154376

Publisher: Scholastic, 2000

Synopsis

Settling into life on Rocky Ridge Farm in Missouri, nine-year-old Rose Wilder helps the neighbors with their harvests, watches her father build the new barn, battles a fierce ice storm, and celebrates her first Ozark Christmas. Children's BOMC Dual Main.

About this title

About the Author:

Roger Lea MacBride, a close friend of Rose Wilder Lane's, was the author of the Rose Years novels.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 4-6?In the third entry in this series, Rose, age eight, adjusts to life in the Ozarks with her parents, Laura Ingalls and Almanzo Wilder. Readers experience the year 1895 along with Rose as she picks apples at the neighbors' farm and helps to prepare sorghum molasses. They feel her jealousy as the hired hand, Abe, goes courting, and join in her dilemma when she is unsure whether she is poor or rich. When Rose's father makes her a sled for Christmas, she is overjoyed. Then she discovers that Abe's little brother has received nothing as both his parents are dead. Can she sacrifice her joy for Swiney? The characters are finely drawn; the era and the setting are alive as well. The simple charcoal drawings are compatible with the slow, quiet thread of the narrative. This book is a must for anyone who enjoys Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" series (HarperCollins) and wishes to follow up with this contemporary installment, but it also stands on its own quite well.?Katrina Yurenka, Jaffrey Public Library, NH
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About this edition

• Publisher: Scholastic
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0439154375
• ISBN 13: 9780439154376
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 338