Prairie Evers is a wide-eyed and outspoken ten-year-old girl who finds her whole world changing when her family moves north. Not long after the move her Grammy, who home schooled Prairie, decides to move back south and Prairie has to attend school for the first time. It's a rough adjustment but with perseverance she manages to meet her very first friend, Ivy Blake. When she learns Ivy's home life is dire she's determined form a plan to help. Through it all Prairie gains a deeper understanding for the feelings of others and discovers how to navigate the wider world.

 

There are 224 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Penguin Putnam Inc .

Ellen Airgood grew up on a small farm, and for the past nineteen years she and her husband have run a diner together in a small town in Michigan. Her adult novel, South of Superior , was published to much acclaim. Prairie Evers is her first children's book. She lives in Grand Marais, Michigan.