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Reviewed on August 1, 1997
Gr 4-7 Iris Anderson, 13, loves her family farm in the Green Mountains of Vermont and hopes that she will never have to leave it. She only wishes that her father would realize that she and not her older brother, Lucien, should carry on the legacy of farming this land. Lucien has already made it clear to their father that he wants to be a writer, not a farmer, creating continual tension between the two. When the barn burns down and their father is seriously injured in a logging accident, it ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More