Little Blog on the Prairie by Cathleen Davitt Bell

A subplot involving a reality TV show is over the top but ultimately doesn’t detract from the genuine humor, as well as the insightful story about family at the novel’s core. Cathleen Davitt Bell starts with a hilarious premise and develops it into a story that offers astute observations about human behavior at the best and worst of times. But one of Gen’s friends has been posting her texts on a blog, and readership is about to skyrocket. Now Gen can recharge her phone and text even more scathing perspectives on Camp Frontier. The history purists have a computer with Internet access and a fridge stocked with soda. Gen will be thrilled if she survives the summer stuck in a cabin with her family and no modern amenities. Then Gen discovers the owners’ secret shack. Little Blog on the Prairie Show full title By Cathleen Davitt Bell 3 / 5 ( 42 ratings ) About this ebook Camp Frontier promises families the 'thrill' of living like 1890s pioneers. Even Gen’s crush on Caleb, a boy from another family, is complicated: the teenage daughter of the camp’s owners seems to like him too. I’m dressed up like an American Girl doll minus the fashion sense.”) Camp was supposed to be a bonding experience for Gen’s family, but the struggle of even simple tasks and the competition among camp families is causing more stress than togetherness.

But Gen has snuck a cell phone in and is texting her friends back home about the absurdity of the experience. Little Blog on the Prairie by Cathleen Davitt Bell Teenage Gen is spending the summer with her family at Camp Frontier. Participants agree to live off the grid and on the land like pioneers. Without a doubt, this was an entertaining, delightful, and most interesting story.Teenage Gen is spending the summer with her family at Camp Frontier. Ages 12–up.īell has tapped into emotions some of us have forgotten about, but definitely needed to be reminded of. Gen's growing appreciation for the simple life is predictable (though she never entirely drinks the Kool-Aid-make that warm cow's milk) and the reconciliation between Gen and Nora feels contrived, but it's still a lively journey with empathetic characters. Cute Caleb, a fellow camper, is a welcome distraction for Gen, though he seems interested in Nora, the daughter of the couple that runs the camp, and the two girls butt heads. e are farmers now”), which they turn into a blog that attracts national attention. Gen holds onto her sanity by sending secret text messages to her best friends (“I am standing in the middle of a cornfield. It's a fun premise that leaves Bell ( Slipping ) ample room for physical comedy, while touching on themes of family and the (dis)advantages of modern life. ApTo her great dismay, 13-year-old Gen is spending her entire summer with her family at a frontier camp, where they must re-enact life from 1890, living without technology, growing their own food, tending a cow and chickens, and working on a project to better the farm.