Old Town in the Green Groves

After grasshoppers ruin the crops, eight-year-old Laura Ingalls and her family leave Plum Creek and move to Burr Oak, Iowa, where they experience life in a small town and help manage a hotel. 75,000 first printing.

After grasshoppers ruin the crops, eight-year-old Laura Ingalls and her family leave Plum Creek and move to Burr Oak, Iowa, where they experience life in a small town and help manage a hotel.

Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote nine Little House books about her childhood growing upon the western frontier. But there were two years she didn't write about, two missing years that take place between On the Banks of Plum Creek and By the Shores of Silver Lake.

Now, Newbery Award-winning author Cynthia Rylant has imagined what those lost Little House years were like, based on Laura's unpublished memoirs. The result is the first Little House novel about Laura as a young girl in almost 60 years, and a wonderful addition to the classic series.

When the grasshopper plague returns to Plum Creek, Pa knows all the crops will be destroyed again. He decides to take the family east to Burr Oak, Iowa, where he has found work running a hotel. But Laura tongs to return to the tall-grass prairie and the unsettled west, to a place where Pa can play his fiddle in the open air and where she can feel free again.

Old Town in the Green Groves continues the story about Laura Ingalls -- a story whose wonder and adventure have delighted millions of readers.

General

ISBN		9780060295615
Fiction/Non-Fiction		Fiction
Publisher		Harpercollins Childrens Books
Pages		164
List Price		$15.99
Author		Rylant, Cynthia
Publication Date		04/01/2002
Release Status		Out of Stock Indefinitely
Format		Hardcover
Language		English
Measurements		Height: 8.25 Inches (US) Width: 6 Inches (US) Thickness: 0.75 Inches (US) Unit Weight: 0.65 Pounds (US)
Series		Laura Ingalls Wilder's Lost Little House Years
Grade Range		3 - 4
Illustrator		Lamarche, Jim