Zoe and her family rumble across the prairie in a wagon pulled by oxen.  The grass stretches, unchanging, all the way to the the horizon.  Papa speaks eagerly of what lies ahead, of building their soddie house out of bricks made from the earth, but Mama is quiet.  Zoe knows she is thinking of home and the memories they left behind.  I've never seen Papa so happy or Mama so sad, Zoe tells herself.  But when she takes a trip to the small prairie town with Papa she sees something that might make a difference to their new soddie, and to Mama's life, too.

Eve Bunting tells a tender story of family transplanted—of the overwhelming emotions that they can't always express, and of the changes they all must make.

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