Lizzie and the Prairie Fire - Girl Pioneer in the American Midwest (Paperback)

Living in a sod home in 1892, young Lizzie Lipinski craves more excitement from her life on the prairie. Her pa instructs her to spend all summer playing atop a lonely hill on the farm looking out for his malicious enemy?prairie fire. Feeling tied to the horrible hill in the scorching heat, Lizzie can?t quite see past her discontentment until she comes face to face with the wrath of the prairie's threatening flames. As Lizzie battles the flames, the water she splashes over the wildfire to save her home and family douses the embers of her inner struggle at the same time.