Bonnie Geisert
1) River Town
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, small towns sprouted up along the banks of America's rivers. Through a year of changing seasons the reader is transported to the days when people's livelihoods were directly connected to the river. The life of the townsfolk is shown to be an accumulation of events both large and small, from a joyous Halloween parade to the frozen river in winter to the threat of damaging springtime floods. Children
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