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On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
5.0

Continuing our tradition of reading beloved books aloud to each other, my husband and I finished this one up the other day and were AGAIN amazed by the Ingalls family members, who are evidently impossible to kill. Like, are we SURE they're really buried under their gravestones today? I'm skeptical. I've said it before, but it bears repeating: Pa is superhuman. I mean,
Spoilersurviving three days buried in a snowbank during a blizzard??
Come on! The insane experiences that this family went through never cease to boggle the mind. The grasshopper plague of the 1870s was very real. For those curious about the balls of fire: it seems fairly certain that these were cases of ball lightning.