num_pages: 340
description: The Ingalls family moves from Kansas to Minnesota.The family's first home in Minnesota was made of sod. But Pa builds a clean new house beside Plum Creek. The money for materials will come from their first wheat harvest. Then, just before the wheat is ready to harvest, a strange glittering cloud fills the sky, blocking out the sun. Soon millions of grasshoppers cover the field and everything on the farm. In a week's time, there is no wheat crop left at all."The finest firsthand picture of American pioneer life ever written for children." - San Francisco Chronicle
language: English
title: On the Banks of Plum Creek
titlecomplete: On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)
characters: Caroline Quiner Ingalls, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Charles Ingalls, Eva Beadle, Nellie Oleson, Mary Ingalls, Carrie Ingalls
genres: Childrens, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Historical, Fiction, Classics, Juvenile, Audiobook, Historical Fiction, Family
ratings_count: 99777
places: Walnut Grove, Minnesota, Minnesota
series: Unsere kleine Farm, Little House
awards: awardedAt: -1009814400000
name: Newbery Medal
publisher: Topeka Bindery