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Author Wilkes, Maria D.

Title Little town at the crossroads / Maria D. Wilkes ; illustrations by Dan Andreasen.

Publication Info. New York : HarperCollins, [1997]
©1997

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection  CH/YA Fic wilkes Lit 1997    Available  ---  Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo.
Edition 1st ed.
Description 343 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
age Children
Contents Fifes and flags -- Spelling bee -- Words -- Wolf -- Critters -- Old Dan Tucker -- Peacock feathers -- Grandma says good-bye -- Christmas trunk -- January thaw -- The resting place -- Maple frolic -- Mrs. Stoddards' house -- Game of graces -- Corduroy Bridge -- White bears -- Letters -- Santeclaus.
Summary Meet Caroline Quiner, the little girl who would grow up to be Laura Ingalls' mother. Caroline watches eagerly as new buildings spring up overnight and more and more families move into the growing town of Brookfield, Wisconsin. There are all sorts of new, exciting things for Caroline to do! She marches in her first Independence Day parade, a circus comes to town, and new neighbors become special friends. But then the family has a chance to move to another farm. Will Caroline have to say good-bye to the little town of Brookfield? Little Town at the Crossroads is the second book in an ongoing series about the advantures of another girl from America's favorite pioneer family. - Back cover.
Young Caroline Quiner, who would grow up to become Laura Ingalls Wilder's mother, and her family have new adventures as the frontier outpost of Brookfield, Wisconsin, grows into a bustling town.
Audience Middle School.
Provenance Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo.
Subject Ingalls, Caroline Lake Quiner -- Juvenile fiction.
Ingalls, Caroline Lake Quiner.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Juvenile works.
Fiction.
Added Author Andreasen, Dan, illustrator.
ISBN 0060269952
9780060269951
0064406512 (paperback)
9780064406512 (paperback)
0060269960 (library binding)
9780060269968 (library binding)
0606115714
9780606115711