num_pages: 7
description: Length: 6 hrs and 25 minsLaura's family's first home in Minnesota is made of sod, but Pa builds a clean new house made of sawed lumber beside Plum Creek. The money for materials will come from their first wheat crop. 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. Unabridged. Paul Woodiel plays the fiddle. Read by Cherry Jones. 6 hours. Recommended for ages 8 and up. A 1938 Newbery Honor book.
language: English
title: On the Banks of Plum Creek
titlecomplete: On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)
characters: Charles Ingalls, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Eva Beadle, Carrie Ingalls, Mary Ingalls, Nellie Oleson, Caroline Quiner Ingalls
genres: Historical, Middle Grade, Audiobook, Young Adult, Classics, Childrens, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Juvenile, Family
ratings_count: 99761
places: Minnesota, Walnut Grove, Minnesota
series: Unsere kleine Farm, Little House
awards: awardedAt: -1009814400000
name: Newbery Medal
publisher: HarperFestival