An examination of what life was like for children in the early years of the United States, including clothing, expectations of their parents, labor, and poverty.
Living on a farm in southwestern Minnesota in the 1870s, a brother and sister try to help their family cope with invading grasshoppers that threaten to destroy their crops.
When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn," they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers and they experience the terror of a tornado.
