Across the Puddingstone Dam
by Melissa Wiley 
Little House: The Charlotte Years (4), Little House Novels, Chronological Order (The Charlotte Years — book 8)
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Her eleventh year brings many changes in the life of Charlotte Tucker and her family, including the building of a dam near their home in Roxbury, Massachusetts, attending school, meeting her mother's older brother, and the birth of her own baby brother.Tags
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None of the other "Little House Years" books are as good as the ones about Laura but other then the Laura books I prefer the Martha books but the Charlotte books are a close third for me. I am from the Boston area so I enjoy reading about this region of the world plus the descriptions are excellent.
A new dam is being built to connect Roxbury to Boston at the end of Tide Mill Lane. Life on the lane is no longer the peaceful, happy life it used to be, and the smell of the now ruined tide flats eventually makes it unbearable. The family is forced to move to a new house and sell their old one. Charlotte is able to adjust to the move, but has much more trouble adjusting to the death of baby George, until her mother explains that George is the forth child she has lost.
One of my favorite childhood books
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Across the Puddingstone Dam
- People/Characters
- Charlotte Tucker Quiner; Martha Morse Tucker; Lewis Tucker; Lewis Tucker jr.; Lydia Tucker; Thomas Tucker (show all 14); Mary Tucker; Will Payson; Lucy Keator Payson; Betsy Eaton; Elizabeth (Ellie) Till (Ellie); Rhoda Jane Till (Auntie Rho); George Tucker; Duncan Morse
- Important places
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA; Massachusetts, USA
- Dedication
- For Brigid O'Neill
- First words
- Charlotte turned eleven in the spring of 1820.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Then they struck out together for home along the new dam road.
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- Languages
- English
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