292E: The Middle Child

Possible title The Middle Child? Shy young pioneer girl defends her lone apple tree from drought, locust and pigs, but Native Americans arrive and enjoy eating all but the last apples. She learns she is brave and generous.

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  1. lenona

    By Miriam E. Mason, who wrote over 50 books, starting in 1931. The only other book of hers I remember was Caroline and Her Kettle Named Maud (1951). There was a sequel, Caroline and the Seven Little Words (1967), in which she wants to become a doctor (in pioneer-era Michigan). Mason died in 1973. She also wrote biographies, including ones of Mark Twain and suffragist Frances Willard!

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