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In the fifth book of the Homesteaders series, fourteen-year-olds Signe and Elna are preparing for a future as teachers. They are encouraged to take the teacher\u2019s examination early (teachers being in short supply on the prairie), and they pass it, enabling them to take teaching positions in small neighboring communities in the fall, when they are both only fifteen years old. It is difficult work for girls who are inexperienced and not much older than some of their students. Signe seems to settle into it, but Elna struggles, and she questions her desire for a career outside the home. However, the girls have witnessed the terror that a friend\u2019s mother has suffered at the hands of an abusive husband, and they have determined to build for themselves a life that is their own, unreliant on a man\u2014especially the bachelors who come courting the single young teachers.<\/p>\n

But when the man in question is Trygve, who is seventeen now and as good and kind a person as one could hope to find, Elna\u2019s vision of the future shifts. The three teens are no longer children; they are maturing into responsible, independent adults who are ready to carry forward the dream that drove their families to homestead in America. In the summer of 1871, it is not just the prairie that blooms, providing the homesteaders with its life-sustaining bounty; it is the youngsters themselves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Signe and Elna take the teacher\u2019s exam early and pass it, enabling them to become teachers at the young age of fifteen. Signe seems to settle into the job, but Elna struggles. However, both girls are determined to build a life that is their own, unreliant on a man. But when it\u2019s the right man, Elna\u2019s vision of the future shifts.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just the prairie that blooms that summer; it\u2019s the youngsters themselves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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