She has to wear a long-sleeved gingham dress and petticoats over pantaloons, pantaloons with a slit in the seat. The only consolation is that her mom buys Gen her own phone and promises that that she'll have it- after the two months are over.īut Gen sneaks the phone into Camp Frontier and starts texting her friends a running account of the indignities of living like the Ingalls family. But her mom has decided the family needs to "grow closer" and they are off to Camp Frontier in Wyoming to live like pioneers for two months-it's Little House on the Prairie all over again. Jen Welsh expects the summer before high school to be great-soccer camp, hanging out with Ashley and Kristin around the neighborhood pool, maybe a resort week at Club Med before school starts. I am halfway down one row: there are ten rows to go, and it's already taken TWO HOURS. Here's the thing: being a farmer is BORING. I am standing in the middle of a cornfield.
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