{"product_id":"9780060581831","title":"On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House Series: Classic Stories #4)","description":"  \u003cp\u003eAmerica's Original\u003cbr\u003ePioneer Girl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeet Laura Ingalls, the little girl who would grow up to write the Little House books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura's family's first home in Minnesota is made of sod, but Pa builds a clean new house made of sawed lumber beside Plum Creek. The money for materials will come from their first wheat crop. Then, just before the wheat is ready to harvest, a strange glittering cloud fills the sky, blocking out the sun. Soon millions of grasshoppers cover the field and everything on the farm. In a week's time, there is no wheat crop left at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn the Banks of Plum Creek\u003c\/i\u003e is the fourth book in the Laura Years series.The Ingalls family, after moving to Minnesota, encounters a terrible blizzard and a grasshopper plague. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  1938 Newbery Honor Book\u003cbr\u003eNotable Children's Books of 1940–1954 (ALA)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor Biography:       Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in 1867 in the log cabin described in \u003ci\u003eLittle House in the Big Woods.\u003c\/i\u003e As her classic Little House books tell us, she and her family traveled by covered wagon across the Midwest. She and her husband, Almanzo Wilder, made their own covered-wagon trip with their daughter, Rose, to Mansfield, Missouri. There Laura wrote her story in the Little House books, and lived until she was ninety years old. For millions of readers, however, she lives forever as the little pioneer girl in the beloved Little House books.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47007903285488,"sku":"9780060581831","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780060581831_p0.jpg?v=1763619198","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780060581831","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}