TY  - BOOK
AU  - McNeal,Laura
TI  - The practice house: a novel 
SN  - 9781477817902
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Little A
KW  - Scots
KW  - United States
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Teachers
KW  - Kansas
KW  - History
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - "Nineteen-year-old Aldine McKenna is stuck at home with her sister and aunt in a Scottish village in 1929 when two Mormon missionaries ring the doorbell. Aldine's sister converts and moves to America to marry, and Aldine follows, hoping to find the life she's meant to lead and the person she's meant to love.  In New York, Aldine answers an ad soliciting a teacher for a one-room schoolhouse in a place she can't possibly imagine: drought-stricken Kansas. She arrives as farms on the Great Plains have begun to fail and schools are going bankrupt, unable to pay or house new teachers. With no money and too much pride to turn back, she lives uneasily with the family of Ansel Price--the charming, optimistic man who placed the ad--and his family responds to her with kind curiosity, suspicion, and, most dangerously, love. Just as she's settling into her strange new life, a storm forces unspoken thoughts to the surface that will forever alter the course of their lives."--Amazon.com
ER  -