Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Patricia MacLachlan.

Left by their mother with their grandparents, two children feel as if their past has been erased until Grandfather finds a way to restore it to t

Taking care of a baby left with them at the end of the tourist season helps a family come to terms with the death of their own infant son. Larkin

When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to r

Sarah came to the prairie from Maine to marry Papa. But that summer, a drought turned the land dry and brown. Fires swept across the fields and c

During her family's first summer in a weathered old house by the sea, Cassie learns to accept change and to find her own space.

While in North Dakota helping her Aunt Frankie prepare for a possible flood, Lucy finds her voice as a poet with the help of her two-year-old bro

Ten year-old Jake shares a special bond with his grandfather, Billy, but when Billy asks Jake to build him a sod house, Jake is not sure he wants

A prairie wedding and then a funeral bring together extended family and friends in the fifth and final volume in the historical fiction series th

As her family gathers for the wedding of her sister Anna, fourth-grader Cassie Whiting sees the many changes brought about by everyday life and f

The stranger lurking on the Witting family's prairie farm turns out to be their long-lost grandfather, whose presence plus prodding from Sarah fo

The stranger lurking on the Witting family's prairie farm turns out to be their long-lost grandfather, whose presence plus prodding from Sarah fo