![]() ![]() ![]() How will she make it home alive in the middle of a massive storm? So she lives there alone, without much food, and waits for her Pa to come and pick her up for Christmas. There is a huge snowstorm, and May can barely even get out of the house even if she wanted to. She has a chance to escape and to go back to her family (it’s fifteen miles back home), but is too afraid, especially after she hurts her ankle and learns that there is a wolf sneaking about. Obligner abandons the house, leaving May B. Obligner eventually decides to go back to her family, and Mr. Obligner always makes her stop if she catches her. She keeps trying to learn to read, but Mrs. ![]() tries to help, but there’s nothing she can do. Obligner doesn’t like the dirty countryside so much, and tensions between the two are high. Obligner, who were just recently married. ![]() She is smart at other things, but words keep tricking her, and eventually her parents take her out of school and send her off to work as a maid for Mr. has dyslexia, and she wants to learn to read but she simply can’t. It is written in a unique verse told in the first person by May B., a girl living in Nebraska during the 1888 blizzard in which thousands died, though the time is never actually specified in the book. is the first book by Caroline Starr Rose, an author who has been attempting to get published for years. ![]()
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