The Jumping-Off Place
Author:
Marion Hurd McNeely
Illustrator:
William Siegel
Publication:
1929 by Longmans, Green and Co., Inc.
Genre:
Fiction
Pages:
308
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Book Guide
The Jumping-Off Place is a sincere story of pioneer life as seen through the eyes of the young Linvilles.
To Becky, seventeen, and Dick, fifteen, falls the responsibility of homesteading in the Dakotas and of caring for the orphaned brother and sister. The story is one of courage and persistence in the face of blazing heat, blinding blizzards, vicious enemies, and threatening poverty.
Through it all runs the call of the land, and the thrill of accomplishment....
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Marion Hurd McNeely
1877 - 1930MARIAN HURD MCNEELY wrote numerous books, articles, and poems for young readers. The Jumping-Off Place, a Newbery Honor Book written in 1929, is bas... See more
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The Jumping-Off Place 
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Reprint of the South Dakota State Historical Society Press, Pierre, South Dakota, 2008 edition.
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The Jumping Off Place
Reviewed by Diane Pendergraft
This is a story about family, courage, maturity, facing life and death, and learning to live in community while, at the same time, learning self-reliance.
The Linville children have spent the past several years learning their work ethic from Uncle Jim who had once said, “If the Lord will supply the grindstone, I’ll furnish the nose.”
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