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title: "A Lantern in Her Hand (Puffin Classics)"
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# A Lantern in Her Hand (Puffin Classics)

**Brand:** bess streeter aldrich
**Price:** € 16.34
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- **What is this?** A Lantern in Her Hand (Puffin Classics) by bess streeter aldrich
- **How much does it cost?** € 16.34 with free shipping
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A Lantern in Her Hand (Puffin Classics)

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A TRIP BACK IN TIME
  

*by J***S on Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2014*

This book begins in a small Nebraska town.  An elderly lady, Mrs. Abbie Deal, is found dead in her home.  She is independent, refuses to live with any of her five kids.  She and her dead husband planned and built this house, she loves this house.  Mrs Deal is a pioneer lady who has seen much happening in the eighty years she was on this earth.Her story begins when she is eight years old.  Her widowed mother decides to more her family, six kids, from Chicago to Iowa in two covered wagons containing all the family possessions.  She wants to join her newly married daughter, keep the family together.Abbie Mackenzie is a very imaginative child.  She sings at her outdoor chores and dreams she is a beautifully dressed, bejeweled lady singing at venues all over the world.  She does have a beautiful voice.  She also wants to be an artist, painting all the beauty of the natural world.  Then she grows up.  Her best friend growing up is Will Deal who goes off to fight in the Civil War.  Abbie realizes how she loves and misses him.  This is a sweet story of married love which lasts for as long as the couple are on earth.  Will wants to move to Nebraska to get his own land.  The two and their young son travel in a covered wagon.  Will builds a sod house, begins to break the land.  The couple works hard as pioneer families must do to exist.  This author brings the reader into the lives of pioneers, their hardships, their families, their neighbors.  There is WORK, WORK, MORE WORK.  The land, the weather and nature fight against those who want to dominate, the pioneers fight back.  Abbie is a natural and loving mother.  Five more babies are born.  And how she loves being a mom and a wife.  The small town grows bigger and bigger.  The children, growing up, want advantages.  Abbie gives up her dreams to give her children theirs.  Will isn't happy about this.  He loves her and feels she should do more for herself.  But Abbie is delighted in her new home, large, roomy, and getting away from the sod house.  She enjoys working on her home and making this house the way she wants it.Time goes on, faster and faster.  However harsh as the prairie is to the pioneers, the land shares its beauty with whoever chooses to live there.  Then more tragedy.  Will Deal dies leaving Abbie alone, at times she feels he is still with her,so strong is their love.  She somewhat talks to him, consults him.  Tells noone, people will think she is crazy.Time rushes on.  The children move off, go on with their lives.  Noone wants to farm.  Then they marry, making Abbie a grandmother, then a great grandmother.  She never gets over the feeling that Will is close and a confident.  Time passes, things change.  Abbie loves the prairie, loves Nebraska, is never sorry she chose this life.  Her daughters and daughters-in-law are so much different than their mother and mother-in-law.  She is such a good person, others push more and more work and responsibilities on her.  There is Abbie's favorite grandchild, Laura, who is so much like her grandmother.  I disliked the character of prissy, old maid Grace.  I am from the northeast where so many of the people there are from immigrant families.A beautiful story of a life well lived.One book, One Nebraska chose this book for 2009.  I enjoy reading midwestern writers.  These authors write so well.  I read this book many years ago and decided I needed to read it again.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Good read
  

*by J***  on Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2024*

Fairly well written, with only a couple of areas that seemed to drag along. The subject matter kept me interested throughout.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A cross section of life
  

*by M***D on Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2024*

Aldrich captures all of our stories. The pain and successes of life. The joys and disappointments of parenting. The transitions and how they impact us. Excellent read.

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