Nothing to do but stay : my pioneer mother /

In eight enjoyable anecdotal essays, Young describes the challenges and rewards of 20th-century pioneering life in North Dakota. Photos. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

YA-- Readers are treated to history at its liveliest in these eight essays. Young tells of her pioneer mother's early westering experiences and those of herself and her five siblings. Like Laura Ingalls Wilder, she admits to the hardships of pioneering after the turn of the century but accentuates the positive aspects. She tells of her mother's 1904 trek to North Dakota to homestead alone and explains that the woman was a successful landowner of 320 acres when she married and began her family. This is a natural read-aloud for secondary history classes, and it offers excellent examples of personal essays for journalism and English classes. It's a terrific read for everybody.-- Barbara Hawkins, West Potomac High Sch . , Fairfax, VA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.