BlackEyed Susan Author:J. Armstrong Illustrated in black-and-white. The beauty of the Dakota Territory's wide prairies is captured in this poetic novel about a pioneer family in the 1880s. To ten-year-old Susie, the open skies and vast plains mean limitless freedom and adventure. But in her mother they inspire only longing and loneliness. Recalling her home in Ohio, she... more » has become increasingly reluctant to even set foot outside their sod house. Set during a single day and framed by two magical prairie sunrises, Black-Eyed Susan beautifully evokes the prairie and the lives of the settlers who dared to move there. « less