![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Gen’s mother has been a fan of both the Little House on the Prairie books and TV series since she was a young girl, and she wants to pass on her admiration for the way people living in those times did everyday things like chores to her own children, to carry on the tradition. Can Gen survive the summer, living the primitive life, away from the wonders of modern technology? Little does she suspect at the time that the friend she’s texting to decides to turn her messages into a blog. She doesn’t want to wear the battery down and only uses it to text with at the end of each day. She knows it’s a wrong thing to do, but she can’t help herself, and she tells herself she won’t use it to make or receive any calls. Unbeknownst to her mother, though, Gen smuggles it to the camp inside a box of Clearasil. To get Gen to go along, her mother bribes her with a Blackberry cell phone she can have after the vacation. That’s what thirteen-year-old Genevieve (“Gen”), her parents and her brother, Gavin, find out when her mother signs them up for a vacation where you live in a cabin for the entire summer, dress like they did in the Little House on the Prairie books and television series, cook using a wood stove, take care of chickens, and work in the fields behind your house weeding, raising, and harvesting crops. It’s one thing to watch Little House on the Prairie but quite another to try to live as the Ingalls did. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |