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Living on a farm in southwestern Minnesota in the 1870s, a brother and sister try to help their family cope with invading grasshoppers that threaten to destroy their crops.

Carl Erik, a recent immigrant from Sweden, becomes the man of the house when his father and uncle go to work in a logging camp, and he learns many things about life in Minnesota while attending school, doing his chores, and trying to put meat on the table.