Let the Hurricane Roar , reissued as Young Pioneers starting from 1976, is a short novel by Rose Wilder Lane that incorporates elements of the childhood of her mother Laura Ingalls Wilder . It was published in The Saturday Evening Post as a serial in 1932 and by Longmans as a book early in 1933, not long after Little House in the Big Woods (1932), the first volume of her mother's Little House series .
21-562: Young Pioneers may refer to: Media [ edit ] Young Pioneers (novel) , a short novel by Rose Wilder Lane Young Pioneers (film) , a 1976 American made-for-television Western film Young Pioneers' Christmas , a 1976 American made-for-television Western drama film The Young Pioneers (miniseries) , a three-episode ABC western television series (Young) Pioneers , an American folk punk band from Richmond, Virginia Organizations [ edit ] Malawi Young Pioneers ,
42-727: A children's organization affiliated with the Communist Party USA Young Pioneers of China , a mass youth organization for children aged six to fourteen in the People's Republic of China Young Pioneers, a branch of the Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organisation in East Germany. Other [ edit ] Young Pioneers Stadium , a sports complex built in the Soviet Union Topics referred to by
63-510: Is a part of her mother's " On the Banks of Plum Creek " . Both of those incidents actually happened to Laura when she was about seven and lived in Walnut Grove, Minnesota . Due to the grasshoppers, her father Charles Ingalls had to leave home and look for a job. Her mother, Caroline stayed with Laura and her two sisters, and they had to run the farm. It is not mentioned in the book that Caroline
84-409: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Young Pioneers (novel) During the 1970s the novel was adapted as a TV series, The Young Pioneers , and as two TV movies, Young Pioneers and Young Pioneers' Christmas . Newlyweds Molly and David are only sixteen and eighteen years old when they pack up their wagon and head west across
105-561: The Kansas prairie, the Ingalls family travels by covered wagon to Minnesota and settles on the banks of Plum Creek. Pa trades their two horses, Pet and Patty, and Pet's colt, Bunny, for a dugout and stable. Later, he trades for two new horses as Christmas presents for his family, which Laura and her sister, Mary , name Sam and David. Pa soon builds a new, above-ground, wooden house for his family, trusting that their first crop of wheat will pay for
126-465: The Big Woods for Harper & Brothers as its book editor from 1926 to 1932. In Kirkus Reviews , her semi-monthly bulletin from 1933, she awarded this novel a starred review (as she did its one predecessor and two successors, books 3 to 6 and no others). "If anything, it is better than her enchanting Little House in the Big Woods ...Laura is always in trouble, but a staunch young person when brought to
147-473: The Hurricane Roar , the two characters are named "Charles" and "Caroline" which were the actual names of Lane's maternal grandparents - they were changed to "Molly" and "David" for the re-issue of the book as Young Pioneers . David is forced to go back east because of the grasshoppers plague, leaving his young wife and infant son alone to endure a brutal winter on their isolated farm. The very same plot line
168-585: The Ingalls family's time in Indian Territory. However, at one point Mary tells Laura to keep her sunbonnet on or "You'll be as brown as an Indian, and what will the town girls think of us?" She also says, "I wish I was an Indian and never had to wear clothes!" The complaint was eventually withdrawn. After failing at farming in the Dakotas in the 1890s—drought, illness, and fire contributing—Wilder moved with her husband, Almanzo , and their young daughter, Rose , to
189-524: The Ozarks in Missouri. Decades later, after writing columns and editing for a regional farm newspaper, she was encouraged by Rose to write a memoir of growing up on the frontier for national serialization—mostly for financial reasons. Wilder wrote Pioneer Girl , an adult version of her autobiography, before she wrote her book series. When it proved unsellable to publishers, Rose suggested they rethink it, leading to
210-506: The disaster, spoiling the girls' opportunity to continue attending school. A severe four-day blizzard hits, delaying Pa's homecoming, but Ma plays games with the girls to keep their spirits up. Finally Pa arrives home; it turns out that he had been within shouting distance of the house throughout the blizzard but had no way of realizing it in the blinding storm. So, the novel ends with the happy family reunited on Christmas Eve. Virginia Kirkus had handled Wilder's debut novel Little House in
231-414: The economic situation, the strength over adversity theme of the book sold well to a Depression-weary public and it has remained in print to this day. Its medium length and straightforward style was also well-suited for the young adult market and the book became a mainstay in high school and public library collections. The novel was adapted into a popular radio broadcast starring Helen Hayes . Officially,
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#1732852246295252-475: The fourth of nine books in her Little House series . It is based on about five years of her childhood when the Ingalls family lived at Plum Creek near Walnut Grove, Minnesota , during the 1870s. The original dust jacket proclaimed: "The true story of an American pioneer family by the author of Little House in the Big Woods ". The novel was a Newbery Honor book in 1938, as were the next four Little House books through 1944. Having left their little house on
273-454: The girls go wading and Nellie gets covered with leeches). The Ingalls family goes through very hard times when the Locust Plague of 1874 destroys both the much-anticipated wheat crop, and any possibility of a successful crop the following year. For two harvest seasons, Pa is forced to walk 300 miles (480 km) east to find work on other farms. The community's school closes in response to
294-540: The lives of Lane and her mother Laura Ingalls Wilder . It features Molly and David Beaton, teenage newlyweds in the Dakota Territory during the 1870s. Young Pioneers was the pilot episode for The Young Pioneers , a three-episode TV series in April 1978. On the Banks of Plum Creek On the Banks of Plum Creek is an autobiographical children's novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1937,
315-579: The lumber and materials. Now that they live near a town, Laura and Mary go to school for the first time. There they make friends, and also meet the town storekeeper's daughter, Nellie Oleson , who makes fun of Laura and Mary for being "country girls". After Laura and Mary attend a party at the Olesons' home, Ma reciprocates by inviting all the girls to their own party, where Nellie mistreats the Ingalls’ dog, Jack, and speaks rudely to Ma (but Laura feels vindicated when
336-556: The novel is not a part of the Little House series but it is published by HarperTrophy , the same unit of HarperCollins that keeps the Little House series in print. Young Pioneers is a made-for-television drama movie, based on the novel Let the Hurricane Roar by Rose Wilder Lane . It was first broadcast on March 1, 1976, and the novel was reissued as Young Pioneers that year. The story includes biographical elements, based on
357-589: The paramilitary wing of the Malawi Congress Party Pioneer movement , an organization for children operated by a communist party Pioneers Palace , youth centers designated for the creative work, sport training and extracurricular activities of Young Pioneers Young Pioneers (Soviet Union) , a mass youth organization of the Soviet Union for children Young Pioneer camp , vacation or summer camps of Young Pioneers Young Pioneers of America ,
378-415: The plains in search of a new homestead. At first their new life is full of promise: The wheat is high, the dugout is warm and cozy, and a new baby is born to share in their happiness. Then disaster strikes, and David must go east for the winter to find work. Molly is left alone with the baby — with nothing but her own courage to face the dangers of the harsh prairie winter. Under Lane's original title Let
399-425: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Young Pioneers . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Young_Pioneers&oldid=1166851286 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
420-447: The text. It is perfect Americana." The novel was the first of five Newbery Honor books for Wilder, books 4 to 8 in the series. In 1997, the novel was challenged by two parents from Winnipeg , Canada who took issue with the portrayal of Native Americans in it and wanted a local school division to pull it from its libraries and lessons. The word "Indian", referring to Native Americans, appears 12 times in it, most of them dealing with
441-654: Was also pregnant at the time with the Ingalls' only son, who died before he was a year old. Let the Hurricane Roar was first published in 1932 as a serial in The Saturday Evening Post while Laura Ingalls Wilder was writing Farmer Boy , the second-published book in the Little House series. The Longmans edition of Let the Hurricane Roar was published in February and reviewed in The New York Times on February 26, 1933. Despite book sales being reduced due to
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