by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Unabridged. Performed by Cherry Jones.
6 compact discs, about 6 hours playing time

 

The Laura Ingalls Wilder audios are based on the series of books about a young girl in the frontier Midwest and Plains of early America. "On the Banks of Plum Creek" is the fourth book in the Laura Years series.

 

"Laura's family's first home in Minnesota is made of sod, but Pa builds a clean new house made of sawed lumber beside Plum Creek. The money for materials will come from their first wheat crop. Then, just before the wheat is ready to harvest, a strange glittering cloud fills the sky, blocking out the sun. Soon millions of grasshoppers cover the field and everything on the farm. In a week's time, there is no wheat crop left at all."