书名：On the Banks of Plum Creek 在梅溪边
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数720L
作者：Laura Ingalls Wilder
出版社名称：HarperCollins
出版时间：1971
语种：英文 
ISBN：9780064400046
商品尺寸：13.1 x 2.1 x 19.4 cm
包装：平装
页数：352

★荣获纽伯瑞儿童文学奖银奖
★文学经典“小木屋”系列
★越过高山，穿过草原，只要一家人在一起，就什么都不怕

On the Banks of Plum Creek《在梅溪边》为劳拉·英格斯·怀德所著的《小木屋》系列第四部。罗兰一家来到明尼苏达州的梅溪边，住进了从来住过的土屋。罗兰和玛丽在梅溪边发现了好多好玩的地方，度过了新鲜而快乐的日子。她们去镇上上学，结识了许多朋友，其中有她们不喜欢的女孩奈妮。爸在梅溪边辛勤耕种了一大片小麦田，他先借钱盖了漂亮的新房子，准备卖了小麦再还钱。谁知当小麦成熟时，飞来了一大群蝗虫，吃光了所有的小麦。罗兰一家陷入了困境……全书文辞妙趣横生，涉及到自然、探险、动物、亲情、成长等许多青少年关注的兴趣点，可以引起青少年极大的阅读兴趣，是对他们的求知和成长大有益处的好书。

精彩书评：
“这是一本质朴的书，非常质朴的故事。写这个故事的人那时就住在这座小木屋里。它开始是在大森林里，后来在大草原上。那是一种宁静、满足的生活。那时的劳作和收获也宁静、满足。那时的幸福是这一团火似的幸福……” ——梅子涵

The fourth book in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s treasured Little House series, and the recipient of a Newbery Honor features Garth Williams’s classic illustrations, which appear in vibrant full color on a full-color device and in rich black-and-white on all other devices.
The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave the prairie and travel in their covered wagon to Walnut Grove, Minnesota. Here they settle in a new home made of sod beside the banks of Plum Creek. Soon Pa builds a wonderful new little house with real glass windows and a hinged door. Laura and her sister Mary go to school, help with the chores, and fish in the creek. At night everyone listens to the merry music of Pas fiddle. Misfortunes come in the form of a grasshopper plague and a terrible blizzard, but the pioneer family works hard together to overcome these challenges.
The nineLittle House books are inspired by Laura’s own childhood and have been cherished by generations of readers as both a unique glimpse into America’s frontier history and as heartwarming, unforgettable stories.

走过宽广的草原，罗兰全家来到了梅溪边，住进一个土洞里。
在梅溪边的日子新鲜又刺激——大公牛踩破了土洞的屋顶、深水潭附近有只怪动物会变形、罗兰和玛莉闹翻了爸爸的麦草堆、不久又被妈叫去上学……刚上学她们就碰到一个叫奈妮的死对头。
爸在梅溪边种了一大片小麦田，他说只要小麦收成好、卖了钱，他们就可以想要什么有什么了。于是他先借了人家的钱，盖了一栋漂亮的新房子，买了一座新火炉，还有两匹马。但是那年冬天却迟迟不下雪，人家说那是“蝗虫天”。什么是蝗虫天？会对麦田有什么影响？会给罗兰的生活带来什么改变？罗兰和奈妮之间又会发生什么新的冲突？
精彩尽在劳拉·英格斯·怀德所著的《在梅溪边》，你将在其中找到答案。
The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on the prairie and travel in their covered wagon to Minnesota. Here they settle in a little house made of sod beside the banks of beautiful Plum Creek. Soon Pa builds a wonderful new little house with real glass windows and a hinged door. Laura and her sister Mary go to school, help with the chores, and fish in the creek. At night everyone listens to the merry music of Pa’s fiddle. Misfortunes come in the form of a grasshopper plague and a terrible blizzard, but the pioneer family works hard together to overcome these troubles.

And so continues Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved story of a pioneer girl and her family. The nineLittle House books have been cherished by generations of readers as both a unique glimpse into America’s frontier past and a heartwarming, unforgettable story.

劳拉·英格斯·怀德（1867-1957），美国儿童文学作家，出生于美国威斯康星州的拓荒者家庭。从小跟随父母穿越美国的中心地带，迁徙各地寻求美好生活。她从六十五岁开始创作儿童文学，将自己的成长经历写成了“小木屋的故事”系列。劳拉的“小木屋的故事”引人入胜，被翻译成各种文字出版，已经成为全球几代人共读的儿童文学经典。
Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in 1867 in the log cabin described inLittle House in the Big Woods. As her classicLittle House books tell us, she and her family traveled by covered wagon across the Midwest. She and her husband, Almanzo Wilder, made their own covered-wagon trip with their daughter, Rose, to Mansfield, Missouri. There Laura wrote her story in the Little House books, and lived until she was ninety years old. For millions of readers, however, she lives forever as the little pioneer girl in the belovedLittle House books.

The dim wagon track went no farther on the prairie, and Pa stopped the horses.
When the wagon wheels stopped turning, Jack dropped down in the shade between them. His belly sank on the grass and his front legs stretched out. His nose fitted in the furry hollow. All of him rested, except his ears.
All day long for many, many days, Jack had been trotting under the wagon. He had trotted all the way from the little log house in Indian Territory, across Kansas, across Missouri, across Iowa, and a long way into Minnesota. He had learned to take his rest whenever the wagon stopped.
In the wagon Laura jumped up, and so did Mary. Their legs were tired of not moving.
“This must be the place,” Pa said. “It’s half a mile up the creek from Nelson’s. We’ve come a good half-mile, and there’s the creek.”
Laura could not see a creek. She saw a grassy bank, and beyond it a line of willow- tree tops, waving in the gentle wind. Everywhere else the prairie grasses were rippling far away to the sky’s straight edge.
“Seems to be some kind of stable over there,” said Pa, looking around the edge of the canvas wagon-cover. “But where’s the house?”
Laura jumped inside her skin. A man was standing beside the horses. No one had been in sight anywhere, but suddenly that man was there. His hair was pale yellow, his round face was as red as an Indian’s, and his eyes were so pale that they looked like a mistake. Jack growled.
“Be still, Jack!” said Pa. He asked the man, “Are you Mr. Hanson?”
“Yah,” the man said.
Pa spoke slowly and loudly. “I heard you want to go west. You trade your place?”
The man looked slowly at the wagon. He looked at the mustangs, Pet and Patty. After a while he said again,“Yah.”