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A six-year-old boy has to go spend the summer with his grandmother, Alida because his mom was too busy to take care of him and his father was in the war. Grandmother Alida lives in a Minnesota town. All the men are off fighting in the war so it’s left for the women to do the chores. The boy is supposed to be helping out but all day the boy just played outside and listened to his grandmother’s stories. One day Alida and the boy had to travel to his cousin, Kristina’s, farm to help the farm because she was in labor. The boy was very excited to go to the farm because he experienced life in a city (Chicago) because his mother lives in an apartment there and he has also experience living in an apartment in Minnesota because his grandmother doesn’t live on a farm but she doesn't have a yard. He was very curious about what it was going to be like. They lived 7 miles apart so they needed someone to drive them. Grandmother knew a close friend and that friend was the only person that owned a vehicle in this town but the vehicle was very old so it didn’t work well. When they arrived they ate bread that Kristina had just made. She couldn’t do much work so she needed help and that’s why she called Alida. This was the boy’s first time doing chores. Before the baby was born, they built a quilt for the baby. Women from the town came over to Kristina’s house to work on the quilt every day. Her house was filled with women. They built the quilt out of the boy’s story. As they build it, they share the stories with the boy. Do you think the boy’s dad and Kristina’s husband will survive the war and do you think the boy will reconnect with his parents again?
I think the author is trying to entertain/inform the reader because she entertains us by giving us a story about a boy’s life during the war and the author also informs us with a little bit of information about the war and the U.S. during the time.