Title: The jumping-off place
Description: In the early 1900s, as four young homesteaders in Tripp County, South Dakota, work hard to prepare for the coming winter, they face drought, discomfort, and sabotaging squatters but find new friends and inner strength to carry on.
Subjects: South Dakota, Frontier and pioneer life, Prairies, Droughts, Fiction, Friendship, History, Newbery Honor, Children's fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, fiction, South dakota, fiction, Friendship, fiction, Weather, fiction, Brothers and sisters, Orphans
Places: South Dakota, Tripp County (S.D.)
Time periods: 20th century