On Tide Mill Lane

The Little House books have captivated millions of readers with their story of Laura Ingalls, a little pioneer girl growing up on the American frontier. Now travel back two generations before Laura's and read the story of Charlotte Tucker, the little eastern girl who would grow up to move west to the frontier and who would become Laura Ingalls Wilder's grandmother. Winter is coming to Roxbury, and Charlotte's days are filled with cornhusking and candle dipping and helping Mama- mind baby Mary. But the war is still going on, and Charlotte worries about Will, Papa's striker from the blacksmith shop, who is marching north with the militia. Then one day Charlotte hears bells ringing all the way from Boston, and that night every building in the town common is lit up with candles. Could it be that peace has finally come? On tide Mill Lane is the second book in The Charlotte Years, an ongoing series about another spirited girl from America's most beloved pioneer family.