Hard Times on the Prairie

Hard Times on the Prairie

by Melissa Peterson

Ages 7-10 📅 1998

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Laura and her pioneer family struggle against hardships on the Kansas frontier, including a prairie fire, a grasshopper invasion, and a blizzard.

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