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Bauer, Marion Dane

Land of the Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, an English Girl in Minnesota

222 pp. | Scholastic | April, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-439-22027-0 $$12.95
(3) 4-6 Dear America series. Fourteen-year-old Polly and her family have recently emigrated from England. Her diary recounts their first year in New Yeovil, Minnesota which proves more difficult than her father, a Baptist pastor, had promised. Droughts, fires, blizzards, and locusts plague their daily lives; while "savages" make for uncertain neighbors. The diarist of this novel is based on the author's own family history, making for a poignant read.
Reviewer: Lauren Rizzuto

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