Prairie Songs Author:Pam Conrad Louisa loves the Nebraska prairie, the only home she's ever known. It's a lonely place, surrouned by miles of wild, flat grasslands, but it's the wonderful kind of loneliness that comes of stillness and open sky and oneness with the land. a different kind of beauty enters Louisa's world when the new doctor and his wife, Emmeline, move to the pra... more »irie from New York. Emmeline is the most beautiful person Louisa has ever seen, and she teaches Louisa to love poetry. But she also frail and unsuited to pioneer life. louisa wonders whether Emmeline will ever come to love the prairie as she herself does.« less