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After relocating to the Ozarks, Laura and Almanzo Wilder, along with their young daughter Rose, have settled into their farm life. Within a year, they celebrate a successful harvest of vegetables and the budding beginnings of an apple orchard. Their rural adventure illustrates the challenges and joys of frontier and pioneer life in Missouri, offering children a glimpse of 19th‑century farm life and the determination required to build a new home in a frontier setting.
First publish date: 1995
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Roger Lea MacBride
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