Grasslands
Publisher
Speak
Publication Year
2005
ISBN
9780142403655
Pages
170 pages
Genre
historical
Format
chapter book
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
In the 1880s, thirteen-year-old Thomas moves west from the aristocratic Virginia home of his grandparents to a poor Kansas farm to live with a father he barely remembers and his new stepfamily.
Grade Level
6-8
Lexile Measure
830L
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Step parent; Legal guardianship; step mother; step children; step siblings; grandparents raising grandchild
Main Character
male teenager
Race/Ethnicities
White
Family Formation
grandmother and grandfather; step mother and father
Awards
Heartland Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, 2004, Finalist
Society of Midland Authors Book Award, 2003, Winner, Children's Fiction
Western Writers of America Spur Award, 2003, Finalist, Juvenile Fiction
Best Children's Books of the Year, 2003
Kirkus Book Review Stars, 2002
Keywords
frontier and pioneer life; farming; education; cowboy; Kansas; 1880s; hard work
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Seely, Debra, "Grasslands" (2005). Diverse Families. 701.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/701