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My Face to the Wind
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Dear America: Book 21

My Face to the Wind (edit title/settings)

The Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher, Broken Bow, Nebraska, 1881

by Jim Murphy (Author) (edit contributors)

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In the late 1870s, many young teachers traveled West to earn money and make a new life for themselves, despite the schools being inadequate at best. Some returned home, unable to endure the hardships of prairie life, but others were more committed to their work. Sarah Jane Price stayed,... read more

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The diary of a girl who's father has just died. He was a teacher in Broken Bow, Kansas. A women who's taking care of her and a minister are sending her to an orphan asylum. But Sarah Jane hears bad things about it and tries to think ofa way that she can stay in Broken Bow. When she has the... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

The diary of a girl who's father has just died. He was a teacher in Broken Bow, Kansas. A women who's taking care of her and a minister are sending her to an orphan asylum. But Sarah Jane hears bad things about it and tries to think ofa way that she can stay in Broken Bow. When she has the idea to take her father's postion as teacher, nobody thinks it's a good idea. But she still gets the job and proves herself by saving all of the children from the burning down school. She ends up staying for 36 years teaching.

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Dear Little Book, Father said if I write in this diary I will see the world differently. But with Father gone my world is nothing but wind and dry grass, more wind and more dry grass. And an empty feeling inside

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This is book 21 of 43 in Dear America. (publisher series)

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  1. Jim Murphy (Author)

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Reading Level: Ages 9-12

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