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Violence
Some
Wartime mob violence against German-American homesteaders: a barn burned, a man kicked and intimidated, rocks thrown at children
Language
None
Common Sense Media marks language as not present
Sexual Content
Barely any
Restrained romance — correspondence with a soldier, a suitor who is turned down — plus a home birth described from a helper's point of view
Substance Use
Some
Chewing tobacco, cigarettes, pipes, wine and whiskey are all mentioned as part of frontier life
Emotional Intensity
Some
Orphanhood, crushing isolation, the very real prospect of losing everything, wartime xenophobia among neighbors, and grief from the 1918 flu
What this book is about
Common Sense Media rates it 10+ and its violence note is the anti-German hysteria of 1918: "A group of bullies set fire to a German man's barn, and later kick and intimidate another man," with children throwing rocks at German-American siblings and a child dying in the flu epidemic. Tobacco, pipes, wine and whiskey are all present. The romance is chaste — letters to a childhood friend at the front, a rancher who asks her out — and a home birth is described.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
Anti-German mob violence including arson
A child's death from influenza
A home-birth scene
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