Pub Date: April 1, 1994
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Code: 0620
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 07 to 10
Physical Info: 0.20" H x 8.49" L x 5.90" W ( 0.23 lbs) 48 pages
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Series: On My Own History
Description: Living on a farm in southwestern Minnesota in the 1870's, a brother and sister try to help their family cope with plagues of locusts.
Brief description: Catherine A. Welch is an award-winning author with more than 20 books to her credit and is a writing instructor with the Institute of Children's Literature. Elementary teachers have found her two short historical fiction books especially useful in the classroom. A teaching strategy for her book, Clouds of Terror, an NCSS/CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies, appeared in Instructor (October 1995). A four-day lesson plan for Danger at the Breaker, her book praised by School Library Journal and Booklist, appears at teachers.net. While many of her works are biographies and history books, her writing credits include several science books. She has degrees in biology and biochemistry, and enjoys giving writing workshops to children and teachers.
Review Quotes: "Coping with a plague of grasshoppers on the Minnesota prairie in the 1870s, Helga and her brother are fishing when they become aware of an odd cloud approaching with a 'strange deep hum'...The authentic details here carry a simple narrative that's sure to fascinate young readers."