num_pages: 335
description: Gray clouds to the northwest mean only one thing-- A blizzard is moments away.... The first terrible storm comes to the barren prairie in October. Then is snows almost without stopping until April. Snow has reached the rooftops, and no trains can get through with food or coal. The people of De Smet are starving, including the Ingalls family, who wonder how they're going to make it through this terrible winter. It is young Almanzo Wilder who finally understands what needs to be done. He must save the town, even if it mean risking his own life.
language: English
title: The Long Winter
titlecomplete: The Long Winter (Little House, #6)
characters: Carrie Ingalls, Charles Ingalls, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Grace Ingalls, Almanzo Wilder, Caroline Quiner Ingalls, Mary Ingalls
genres: Juvenile, Fiction, Family, Classics, Young Adult, Historical, Childrens, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, Audiobook
ratings_count: 86180
places: South Dakota, De Smet, South Dakota
series: Little House, Unsere kleine Farm
awards: awardedAt: -915120000000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: -946742400000
name: Boston Globe-Horn Book Award
publisher: Scholastic Inc.