Pub Date: February 14, 2012
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2011022937
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: 08 to 12
Physical Info: 1.07" H x 8.42" L x 5.84" W ( 0.93 lbs) 320 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Family | General see also headings under Social Themes | Historical | United States 19th Century | Lifestyles | Farm Life and Ranch Life | Girls and Women | School and Education | Biographical | United States | Social Themes | New Experience | United States 20th Century
Series: Little House Sequel
Description: After moving from Malone, New York, to Spring Valley, Minnesota, in the 1870s, fourteen-year-old Almanzo Wilder, who would grow up to become the husband of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and his family must decide whether to stay out west or return home to the life they have always known.
Brief description:
Heather Williams is the pen name for Tui Sutherland, author of several children's books, including Nellie Oleson Meets Laura Ingalls, Who Was Harry Houdini? and the Pet Trouble series. She is also one of four authors working on the bestselling Warriors and Seekers books under the name Erin Hunter. In 2009, she was a two-night champion on Jeopardy!, which is not something she could have done in Almanzo's day! She currently lives in Boston with her family.
Review Quotes:
"Along with physical olden-days details, the author tucks in attitudes that modern readers will find quaint....[Farmer Boy Goes West is] safe, comfortable, respectful of its progenitors and wholesome." - Kirkus Reviews
"Safe, comfortable, respectful of its progenitors and wholesome." - Kirkus Reviews