My face to the wind

the diary of Sarah Jane Price, a prairie teacher

About this book

Following her father's death from a disease that swept through her Nebraska town in 1881, teenaged Sarah Jane must find work to support herself and records in her diary her experiences as a young school teacher.

Subjects

  • children's fiction
  • city and town life
  • diaries
  • fiction
  • history
  • juvenile fiction
  • nebraska, fiction
  • orphans
  • orphans, fiction
  • self-reliance
  • teachers
  • teachers, fiction