Little Blog on the Prairie by Cathleen Davitt Bell

Their chickens Daisy and Pumpkin attack them every time they go outside, and Gen realizes that among her other chores-hauling water, hoeing in the field, and washing clothes by hand-she is now the milkmaid for the family cow. If they want anything else to eat before scurvy sets in, the family has to toil in their garden, a motley assortment of baby plants a long way from a healthy harvest, and in their acres and acreas of tiny corn plants fighting a losing battle with the weeds. Not that that helps when she has to sit on a slimy wooden seat in a smelly, damp privy.Īnd her mom, heretofore a dedicated gourmet cook, has her dreams of whipping up hardy frontier delicacies dashed by the provision list-pretty much beans and cornmeal-and the iron stove which requires an infinite supply of chopped and hauled wood. She has to wear a long-sleeved gingham dress and petticoats over pantaloons, pantaloons with a slit in the seat. The only consolation is that her mom buys Gen her own phone and promises that that she'll have it- after the two months are over.īut Gen sneaks the phone into Camp Frontier and starts texting her friends a running account of the indignities of living like the Ingalls family. But her mom has decided the family needs to 'grow closer' and they are off to Camp Frontier in Wyoming to live like pioneers for two months-it's Little House on the Prairie all over again. Jen Welsh expects the summer before high school to be great-soccer camp, hanging out with Ashley and Kristin around the neighborhood pool, maybe a resort week at Club Med before school starts. I am halfway down one row: there are ten rows to go, and it's already taken TWO HOURS. Here's the thing: being a farmer is BORING. 'This is a book that shows you what true love is: heart-stopping, mind-bending, life-changing.I am standing in the middle of a cornfield. 'An ode to the enduring, transforming power of love.' - Susane Colasanti, author of Now and Forever But how do you hold on to someone you love in the present when they’ve begun slipping away from you in the future? All Juliet wants is to keep Lucas safe with her. As Lucas’s memories occur more frequently, they also grow more ominous. Juliet doesn’t know whether to be afraid for herself or for Lucas.

He even knows what’s going to happen between them-not because he can predict the future, but because he claims to have already lived it.

But from the moment Lucas sees Juliet, he swears he remembers their first kiss. Lucas and Juliet couldn’t be more different from each other. For fans of THE FUTURE OF US comes an engrossing story of two teens, whose love for each other is tested by time and fate.

Little Blog on the Prairie by Cathleen Davitt Bell