The Bounces of Cynthiann'

<p><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>All the long way from Rhode Island to Oregon via Cape Horn and then by stagecoach trekked the four Bounce orphans to live with their Uncle Seth. But he had died before receiveing their letter announcing they were on the way.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>Arriving in the little pioneer town of Cynthianna tired hungry and homeless in the midst of strangers their plight would have been sad indeed if kind Rufus Boster and his wife Nancy hadn't befriended them. It was they who arranged temporary homes for the Bounces-Johanna the baby to stay with them Luke to go with old Doc Kinsey Markia to help the Mrs. Weddle at the boarding house and Matt the eldest to work in the print shop of the town's newspaper the Cynthianna Shield.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>Matt and Markia's big problem was to fulfill the promise to their mother keeping the Bounces together as a family. How they finally accomplished this and how even Peaches Charley the Indian and Feng the Chinese laborer who hid in Mrs. Weddle's barn and strange old Widow Morrison all had a hand in solving the Bounces' problem.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>Evelyn Sibley Lampman author of The Shy Stegosaurus books </span><em style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>City Under the Back Steps Three Knocks on the Wall </em><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>and</span><em style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)> Bargain Bride</em><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)> tells an absorbing and entertaining story-and Grace Paull's numerous pictures make the Bounces and their neighbors real and unforgettable people.</span></p>