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Title: Land Of The Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Elizabeth Rodgers, an English Girl in Minnesota, New Yeovil, 1873 (Dear America) by Marion Dane Bauer ISBN: 0439220270 Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Rating: 4
Summary: A Family Story Retold
Comment: Land of the Buffalo Bones is the story of Polly Rodgers, a young girl whose father is a Baptist minster who organizes 80 religously persecuted Baptists in Yeovil, England, to colonize the Minnesota Territory in the New Yeovil Colony. Although the advertisments and her father's false words tell of a wonderful and bountiful country, the 80 colonists come upon a surprise when they reach the colony--which isn't built, is covered in snow, and is in the middle of nowhere with no trees or parks or houses or anything of the sort that was promised. After the grueling ship ride over, this hardship is even worse. Soddies are built quickly for the many families, as is one for the Rodgers, since their father is not expected to work with his hands. However, all the land brings is despair. Locusts attack and destroy the crops that the first time at farming colonists grow, Polly's best friend's family is destroyed with the death of the mother and brother and the runaway of her best friend to be married to a Native American. However, the land brings Polly and her step-mother closer together and many of her other family members, despite Laura's constant pesturing. However, even though her father is taken away from his position as minister and the Rodgers must move onto a new colony, they leave happy and together, knowing they will make it.
This diary is based on the author's family, the Rodgers, and was an interesting and treasuring contribution to the series. Although I would recommend Love Thy Neighbor more out of the two new books, this diary was still very good, very unique, and worth you time.
Rating: 5
Summary: A good new Dear America book.
Comment: Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, called Polly by her family, is the fourteen-year-old daughter of a Baptist minister. She was born and raised in England, but now her father has decided to move the family to Minnesota in search of religious freedom. Polly begins her diary on the journey by steamship to America and describes the challenges her family and friends face on their journey to their new home, challenges that do not end once they reach Minnesota. The Rodgers and their fellow settlers face the bitter cold of winter and the scorching heat of summer, endless blizzards, a disastrous plague of locusts, as well as illness and death. Land of the Buffalo Bones is an excellent addition to the Dear America series that described the hardships of life on the prairie in the 1870s. I recommend this book to all fans of the series.
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Title: Love Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson, Greenmarsh, Massachusetts, 1774 (Dear America) by Ann Turner ISBN: 0439153085 Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Elisabeth: The Princess Bride, Austria-Hungary, 1853 (The Royal Diaries) by Barry Denenberg ISBN: 0439266440 Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: When Christmas Comes Again: The World War I Diary of Simone Spencer--New York City to the Western Front, 1917 (Dear America) by Beth Seidel Levine ISBN: 0439439825 Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Diary of Bess Brennan--The Perkins School for the Blind, 1932 (Dear America) by Barry Denenberg ISBN: 0439194466 Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Kristina: The Girl King, Sweden, 1638 (Royal Diaries) by Carolyn Meyer ISBN: 0439249767 Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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