Title: Caddie Woodlawn (A Newbery Medal Book)
Publisher: Acorn Book (MacMillan Company)
Author: Carol Ryrie Brink
Year: 1935, renewed 1962, 1963 (Acorn Books Ed.)
Edition: 4th printing, 1968
Page Count: 185 pages
Cover Price: $0.95
Binding: Softcover
Condition: Used, ex-library copy, has typical library markings and holder, frayed edges, chipped and minor folded corners, minor spine damage, etc. Still in readable condition.
Book Summary or Synopsis
Caddie Woodlawn preferred hunting, plowing, and mending the Circuit Rider's clock to learning to sew and bake. And when the Indian threatened a massacre it was this spirited tomboy little tomboy's quick-thinking and courage that saved her family and the other Wisconsin pioneers.
Here is the prize-winning story of Caddie's daring pledge of faith with the Indians, of the schoolhouse fire, the jokes played on the Woodlawns' cousin from Boston, the amazing discovery in an old trunk which revealed her father's connection with English nobility, and of the unexpected inheritance which brought the Woodlawns face to face with an important decision.
Caddie, her five-red-haired brothers and sisters, and the adventures they have growing up in the wilds of Wisconsin in the 1860's seem very real to young readers today. The reader feels she is sharing Caddie's experience – sometimes comic, sometimes dangerous, always exciting - because almost everything in this book is based on true stories the author's own grandmother told of her years as a pioneer girl.