LOOKING AHEAD

Now that you’ve read Giddyap Tin Lizzie, look to the next book in the O’Shaughnessy Chronicles, BitterSweet Harvest, which will appear soon. Follow Will and his family’s fortunes as they struggle through the depression and World War II years on their Wisconsin River valley farm. A Texas cousin arrives to turn the family’s harmony on its head, Jesse reappears, while Will organizes his farm neighbors into a co-op that helps them struggle through these difficult years. But it’s not easy. Will’s fortunes zigzag and, through it all, he remembers Grandpa Duffy’s admonition, “You’re not hard enough to make a living at farming.” Is Grandpa right?