TY  - BOOK
AU  - McNeely,Marian Hurd
AU  - Siegel,William
TI  - The jumping-off place
SN  - 0979894042
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Pierre, S.D.
PB  - South Dakota State Historical Society Press
KW  - Brothers and sisters
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Droughts
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life
KW  - South Dakota
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Orphans
KW  - Prairies
KW  - Tripp County (S.D.)
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
N1  - "A Newberry honor book"
N2  - In the early 1900s, four orphaned siblings, the eldest being seventeen, set out to fulfill their uncle's dream of homesteading in Tripp County, South Dakota, and although they face drought, discomfort, and sabotaging squatters, new friends and inner strength help them carry on
ER  -