Willow Creek Home

by Janice Jordan Shefelman

Book Overview

A summer of drought and epidemic illness in 1847 forces Mina, Papa, and his new wife, Lisette, to move on from Fredericksburg, Texas, to a larger land grant deep in Comanche territory. This is the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0890156379
• ISBN13: 9780890156377
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Eakin Press
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 5 years and up
• Grade Range: Preschool and higher

Customer Reviews

willow creek home

non-fiction Three sentence summary:Mina, Papa and mina's little sister where left to protect themselves. The indians where stilling there food. Finally the indains and the people became friend. What I likes most about the book:It told about the olden days, and it taught me a really good life leason on how the people lived back in the olden days and how we have a really good life. What i didn't like and why:It as really long and confusing because it was hard to to understand. my favorite character and why: My favorite character is Mina because she nows how to protect the family. The scene, line, or passage that meantsomething to me and why( page #):A line in the book told me that she wasn't afraid of an indian " as she put the double barrel shout gun trogh the whole in the wall".(52) What i would say about this book to someone else: Its really good because it tells how to trat others. One question I have after reading this book: how did they get all the money for the food and there clothes? My strongest reason for recomminding this book: A really good idea of what life was like about to appreseate what you get and not want.

willow creek home

Three sentence summary: Mina, Papa, and mina's little sister where lef to protect themselfs. Th indians where stilling their food. Finally the indains and the people became friends. What i likes abou the book: I taught me a good lilfe leason on how they used to live. What i didn't like and why: It as hard to understand because it was counfusing. My favorite chracter and why: Mina because she was not afiad of anything. The line in the book that told em that( page #): She put the double barrel shot gun through the whole in the wall. What i would say to someone else: It is a really good book and has alot of fun thing in it. One puestion i have is: How did they get all of their money. My stongest recommending this book is: It tells how we have a good life and get everything we want.

ONE OUT OF A GREAT SERIES!!!

I teach 5th grade in Texas. We had the honor of having Mrs. Shefelman visit our school. Before her visit each teacher read one of the three books in the series. I read Willow Creek Home. What an outstanding story. My students begged for more. I think the book meant more to my students knowing that it was based on one of Shefelman's relatives. Buy all three, you won't be sorry. The other two books are A Paradise Called Texas and Spirit of Iron.