Book
A Girl of the Limberlost
- Published
- 1909
- Genre
- Children's
- Publisher
- Kessinger Publishing, LLC
- Pages
- 222
- Words
- 113276
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17567.A_Girl_of_the_Limberlost?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=0r4I2O9dW5&rank=1
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 6.1
- Lexile
- 850L
Synopsis from Huffington Post: Cornfields, soy fields, alfalfa fields ― Indiana has long been seen as an agricultural plain. But to make it a lucrative farming state, much of the land had to be deforested, leaving behind devastated habitats. The Limberlost, a wetland in northern Indiana, was mostly destroyed by drainage, logging and oil production. Gene Stratton-Porter, an early 20th-century naturalist and novelist, captured the fading beauty of the swamp in books like A Girl of the Limberlost, a novel about a smart, ambitious girl who lives in the dwindling wetland with her mother and pays for school by collecting local moth specimens to sell to naturalists. The book isn’t exactly an environmentalist tract, but it makes the case nonetheless: It celebrates the beauty and richness of the swampland, while showing how easily economic forces push landowners to strip it away.
Collections
The Good & The Beautiful · 11
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780766194243
- ISBN-10
- 0766194248
Tags
ChildhoodCommunity Life-SchoolFamily LifeMysteries-SecretsNatural Environments-ForestsPeople-Parents & Parental FiguresScience-NatureThe Good & The BeautifulWetland