Age Group: 9 - 12 Years, 12+ Years

Description:

Laura and her family live in a small town on the open prairie. One autumn, the signs point to a very hard winter, and they are right. Blizzards blow for days at a time, and snow buries the railway tracks so the trains cannot come. Soon the town runs short of food and coal. The family twists hay into sticks to burn and grinds wheat in a coffee mill to make bread. Then two brave young men set out across the frozen prairie to find wheat. This is a gripping true-life story of courage, family and survival.