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Loading... Little Town at the Crossroads (1997)by Maria D. Wilkes
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Caroline watches eagerly as buildings spring up overnight and more and more families move into the growing town of Brookfield, Wisconsin. There are all sorts of exciting, new things for Caroline to do, but Mother keeps saying she wants to move to a larger farm. Will Caroline have to say goodbye to Brookfield? Martha is still a more interesting character - I actually do want to keep reading the series to learn about her. I suppose that, by making Caroline (and, really, all the little girls in these different series) rather generic, the little girls reading them can identify with them, empathize with them, better. I also have a small nit to pick - it's highly unlikely that the books mentioned would have made it to Brookfield the year they did - they were very-newly published. I could be wrong, as Wilkes did more research than I, but if Caroline did indeed have access to these stories she was a very lucky girl. ETA - I almost forgot a bigger problem I had with this - the massacre of the passenger pigeons! Yes, I know, at the time it was what was done. But it still seems wasteful. Especially no reviews | add a review
Belongs to SeriesLittle House Novels, Chronological Order (book 10)
Young Caroline Quiner, who would grow up to become Laura Ingalls Wilder's mother, and her family have new adventures as the frontier outpost of Brookfield, Wisconsin, grows into a bustling town. No library descriptions found. |
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