For most people these days a fresh calendar is all we need to feel like we’re getting a chance to start over. As January begins people energetically undertake all sorts of personal improvement projects under the heading RESOLUTIONS hoping to change themselves and their lives for the better. But there was a time when getting a fresh start in this country meant a huge change to your entire way of life, leaving the settled east coast for a land of opportunity and adventure out west.
This month I’ll be reading my way through the frontier, including of course, the famous Little House Series
What fun! Make sure you include West From Home. The Long Winter was always my favorite– this would be a good time to read that one and feel WARM in my central heating!
Oh, I just got Sandra Dallas’s The Quilt Walk for Christmas! It’s a children’s book about a girl who goes west with her family. I’ll have to make sure to read it this month–synchronicity!
Also, have you read The Thirteenth Child? One of my favorites–frontier life with magic.
This sounds like fun — I’m looking forward to it.
I also liked The Thirteenth Child . Oh, Gary Paulsen’s Tucker series is another possibility.