Mary emma & company - Ralph Moody

The protagonist, Mary Emma Moody, widowed mother of six, has taken her family east in 1912 to begin a new life.

Her son, Ralph, then thirteen, recalls how the Moodys survive that first bleak winter in a Massachusetts town.

Money and prospects are lacking, but not so faith and resourcefulness.

Mother in Little Britches and Man of the Family , Mary Emma emerges fully as a character in this book, and Ralph, no longer called Little Britches, comes into his own.

The family's run-ins with authority and with broken furnaces in winter are evocative of a full and warm family life.

Mary Emma & Company continues the Moody saga that started in Colorado with Little Britches and runs through Man of the Family and The Home Ranch .

All these titles have been reprinted as Bison Books, as has The Fields of Home , in which Ralph leaves the Massachusetts town for his grandfather's farm in Maine.

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