My Antonia: Foreword by Jerry Depew -- Willa Cather

Travel back in time to the Nebraska prairies of the 1880s with Willa Cather, the author of this famous classic. She was there. She heard the wind moan over the red-grass praires, the howl of the coyotes, and the clanging of the windmill in the night. Jim Burden, the narrator of the novel, encounters a Bohemian girl, Antonia, who makes an impact on his soul. Observing her struggles in the new land, he is amazed by how she overcomes the obstacles, trials, and tribulations of life. One reader said, "I couldn't put it down until I finished it. Another reader said that she had read it years ago, and "its poignant moments linger with me."<br><br><b>Author:</b> Willa Cather<br><b>Publisher:</b> Paralogos Publishing<br><b>Published:</b> 08/25/2012<br><b>Pages:</b> 278<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.83lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.58d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780983582311<br><br><b>Accelerated Reader:</b><br><b>Reading Level:</b> 6.9<br><b>Point Value:</b> 14<br><b>Interest Level:</b> Upper Grade<br><b>Quiz #/Name: </b>713 / My Antonia<br><br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Willa Cather was an American author of many great novels. She won the Pulitzer Prize for "One of her Own," but many believe that her best novel was "My Antonia." She and her parents moved to a farm near Red Cloud, Nebraska in the 1880s. Later they would move into the town of Red Cloud. Many of the characters in her novels were based on people from this small town. In "My Antonia," the town was