PIONEER GIRL
A True Story of Growing Up
on the Prairie
Andrea Warren
University of Nebraska Press
$14.95, Trade Paperback
ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-2526-8
Children’s / Regional History / Nebraska and Great Plains
“Andrea Warren is a huge name in children’s non-fiction!! Kudos to University of Nebraska Press for bringing back this important book about Nebraska’s early days. We love this one!”
– Ellen Scott, Children’s Dept. Manager, The Bookworm, Omaha“This summer my eleven year old niece and I visited Homestead National Monument in Beatrice, Nebraska, where we saw first-hand what Grace McCance Snyder, the “pioneer girl” of Warren’s book, would have encountered as a homesteader to this area in 1885. Pioneer Girl is an engaging, well-researched extension of our visit, and I just had to buy it for her for her birthday!”
– Carla Ketner, Chapters Books & Gifts, Seward, NE“A nonfiction parallel to Laura Ingalls Wilder stories, filled with the gritty details of a settler’s life and told with a smooth storytelling style.”
– Horn Book“An excellent addition to units on the westward movement or for fans of pioneer stories.”
– Booklist
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ABOUT THE BOOK
This new paperback edition of PIONEER GIRL includes a new afterw0rd by the author.
Pioneer Girl is the true story of Grace McCance Snyder. In 1885, when Grace was three, she and her family became homesteaders on the windswept prairie of central Nebraska. They settled into a small sod house and hauled their water in barrels. Together they endured violent storms, drought, blizzards, and prairie fires. Despite the hardships and dangers, Grace loved her life on the prairie.
Weaving Grace’s story into the history of America’s heartland, award-winning author Andrea Warren writes not just of one spirited girl but of all the children who homesteaded with their families in the late 1800s, sharing the heartbreaks and joys of pioneer life.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Andrea Warren is the author of several highly acclaimed children’s books, including Orphan Train Rider: One Boy’s True Story, winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Outstanding Nonfiction; Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps, a Robert F. Sibert Award Honor Book; and Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy, a Booklist Editors’ Choice.
