num_pages: 56
description: "You can't build a proper house out of sod!" Ma cried. "Oh, yes, you can!" Lem boomed back at her. His loud, cheery voice carried across the prairie. "I'll come back tomorrow and show you how! Meanwhile, you stake out the corners of your house. Make sure you line up one wall with the North Star." "Why should we do that?" I asked. "Out here you want your house to stand square against the world," Lem said. "So you have to line it up with the stars!"Rachel, now 70 years old, tells her ten-year-old granddaughter about her life on the prairies of Nebraska during the late 1800s.
language: English
title: Square Against The World: The Story Of A Sod House
titlecomplete: Square Against The World: The Story Of A Sod House (Cover-to-cover Books: Historical Moments)
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Perfection Learning