Five Pennies: A Prairie Boy's Story

by Irene Morck

From the trips to the general store to battles with bedbugs and falling cows, Five Pennies brings to life the experiences of a boy growing up in the early west.

Filled with details about pioneer life, each story gives insight into the difficulties, challenges, and joys faced by families building a new home on a rugged, new land. Young Archie's observations offer a different perspective on that life, one tinged by a child's wonder...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1894004329
• ISBN13: 9781894004329
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Fifth House Publishers
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Struggles and Joys of a Pioneer family

Read it at once like a novel or in chapters like a series of vignettes, this delightful book features difficulties facing a farm family, and rejoices at their victories and grieves over their sorrows and defeats. Enjoy the mischievous pranks of a bunch of farm kids who invented ways to make their hard work more fun, and how their jokes sometimes turned into expensive lessons when things went awry. The intense desire for education that drove these farm boys to make enormous sacrifices in order to have an opportunity to achieve their goals is inspiring. This is a great book for young folks who are wrestling with lifes tough questions, and how faith, persistance and determination can lead to fulfilment of dreams.