The Jumping-Off Place (Paperback)

from indianajane

I began to read The Jumping-Off Place by book light in a camp bunk with barely a glance at the cover. There was a lovely old-fashioned quality to the writing and the characters that surprised me, until I looked more closely the next day and realized that the book was written in 1929. This is a wo...

from ElizaJane

Reason for Reading: I'm reading all the Newbery Awards and Honors. I received a copy through LibraryThing's ER Program. I also very much love children's historical fiction about the early days of settling our land. Comments: Four children Becky (17), Dick (15), Phil (10) and Joan (8) live with th...

from atimco

The Jumping-Off Place was a Newbery Honor book in 1930, and this lovely new edition is published by the South Dakota State Historical Society Press. I'm glad they have reprinted it, because it's a very well-written story, reminiscient of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books. But as Jean Patr...

from Teazle

I greatly enjoyed this book about a family of siblings in pioneering days on the South Dakota plains. It is well written with just the right amount of tension about what's going to happen to the family, without detracting from the sense that the life described was how it was for many people. I sh...

from lefty33

After the death of their uncle, the four Linville children move out to the South Dakota land their uncle had claimed as a homestead. The children learn to grow up quickly and together while facing the difficulties of maintaining a new territory. At first I found this book to be tedious, wandering...