Five Pennies: A Prairie Boy's Story

Name: Struggles and Joys of a Pioneer family
Item: Five Pennies : A Prairie Boy&#39;s Story
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by Irene Morck

From the trips to the general store to battles with bedbugs and falling cows, Five Pennies brings to life the experiences of a boy growing up in the early west.

Filled with details about pioneer life, each story gives insight into the difficulties, challenges, and joys faced by families building a new home on a rugged, new land. Young Archie's observations offer a different perspective on that life, one tinged by a child's wonder and sense of adventure.

These heartwarming stories about Christmas pageants, starting school, summer jobs, and the exciting potential of owning five pennies were told to author Irene Morck by her father. She has captured the spirit and humour of his memories and brought them together in this entertaining collection.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1894004329

ISBN13:9781894004329

Release Date:August 1999

Publisher:Fifth House Publishers

Length:164 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.8" x 8.0"

Related Subjects

Americas Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Canada Canadian Historical History Regional Canada

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Struggles and Joys of a Pioneer family

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Read it at once like a novel or in chapters like a series of vignettes, this delightful book features difficulties facing a farm family, and rejoices at their victories and grieves over their sorrows and defeats. Enjoy the mischievous pranks of a bunch of farm kids who invented ways to make their hard work more fun, and how their jokes sometimes turned into expensive lessons when things went awry. The intense desire for education that drove these farm boys to make enormous sacrifices in order to have an opportunity to achieve their goals is inspiring. This is a great book for young folks who are wrestling with lifes tough questions, and how faith, persistance and determination can lead to fulfilment of dreams.

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