Calling Me Home (An Avon Camelot Book)

By Patricia Hermes and Olson

Book Overview

Twelve-year-old Abbie and her family are finding the homesteader's life on the Nebraska plains harder than they ever imagined. Trying to save the money to buy a homestead, Papa is working in town and rarely comes home to visit. Abbie, her sister, two brothers, and their mother live out on their prairie farm, isolated from civilization. Abbie wishes for impossible things: that the family could live in town, that she could own a piano, could attend school, and have friends her own age. But then tragedy strikes and Abbie tortures herself with remorse, no longer sure that she and her family will find the courage and faith to survive.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380974517
• ISBN13: 9780380974511
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.5" x 5.5"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

A great book!

Twelve year old Abbie and her family are homesteaders living on the Nebraska prairies in the 1850s. Abbie wishes they could go back to their old home in Missouri. She hates living in a sod house out in the middle of nowhere. When tragedy strikes, Abbie blames herself. Can she ever forgive herself - and come to love her new home on the prairie? I highly reccomend this book.

A girl's life with her family on a prairie homestead.

This novel is about a young girl named Abbie who moves with her mother, father, and two younger brothers and a younger sister from St. Louis, Missouri, to a prairie homestead in the 1850s. Abbie resents her parents' decision to move to Nebraska. She wants to live in a real house, go to school, have friends, and own a piano. Then tragedy strikes the family. Abbie wonders if she is to blame. Can she ever feel at home on the prairie? This was a heartwarming story of a young girl uprooted from her home who tries to accept that certain things just happen and no one is to blame for them, and that sometimes a new home can bring good changes. I highly reccomend this book.