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During this time period of the 1860s, a religious minister may come to a person's house. Circuit riders were a religious and moral force along the frontier.

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Calico: "[...] calico[...]" (pg. 7)
A calico dress

Disheveled: "[...] disheveled [...]" (pg.11)
A man with long disheveled hair

judiciously: "[...] judiciously [...]" (pg.10)

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"The novel is based on the stories of the authors grandmother, who lived on the Wisconsin frontier in the 1860s. The story, Caddie tries to reject her mother's attempts to turn her into a young lady, preferring to join and sometimes and even instigates the deeds and pranks of her little brothers. She stands up to a school bully, and gets revenge on a snobbish, visiting cousin. Caddie's friendship of Indian John, Native American at an encampment near their home ends up becoming a true test of her character."

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United States 1863           The Spread of Slavery

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United States 1863           The Spread of Slavery

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Caddie is a girl who is a tomboy. "I wish Mother'd let me wear boys clothes" (pg. 5)

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Tom is the oldest boy, Caddie is the middle third child, and Warren is the  second youngest. Hetty is the youngest. Clara is the oldest girl. If Tom does something, Caddie will follow along. Tom, Caddie, and Warren swim along the river. None of them know how to swim. When they come home fro Indian John's camp, they pick hazelnuts. "Caddie picked furiously, filling her skirt. It was not often that she got more nuts the Tom" (pg. 10)

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"She was the despair of her mother and her eldest sister Clara. But her father watched her with a little shine of pride in his eyes, and her brothers accepted her as one of their themselves without a question" (pg. 1). This tells the reader that Caddie is a tomboy, which despairs her mother, and her father and brothers allow her to be herself.

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Change, sibling rivalry identity, gender roles, and honesty.

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For seven years Caddie ran in the wild because when she arrived in Wisconsin from Boston, she was sick and frail

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For seven years Caddie ran in the wild because when she arrived in Wisconsin from Boston, she was sick and frail

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Her father decided to let her run wild with her brothers. "If Tom climbed a tree Caddie would climb a taller one. If Warren would catch a snake she would catch a bigger one" (pg. 13).

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Mrs. Woodlawn announces that Uncle Edmund, her brother, will arrive on The Little Steamer fro the east. She tells Caddie and Warren to stay home because there isn't space on the wagon. Tom and Clara both get to go greet Uncle Edmund. They takes Betsy, the horse, and ride to Dunnville. "But not to meet Uncle Edmund was unthinkable" (pg. 29)

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"Hetty was the self-appointed news bearer of the family. Wild horses could not prevent her from being the first to tell, whatever it was that happened" (pg. 3) When Tom, Warren, and Caddie go to the river to cross it, Hetty runs back home to tell back home to tell on her sibling. Another example is when Caddie and Warren take the horse  to Dunnville, the author writes, "Hetty saw them go, and instant realization of what they were going to do flashed across her mind. Here was something important to tell" (pg.30).

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Uncle Edmund went to hunt the game bag with Caddie, however, her sibling were mad that she got hunt, and not them. When she came to use boats to get across the river to the woods and Caddie took them a more unwieldy boat, while her uncle took the slick canoe. She boasted her skills on the raft by getting to the other side of the river first. She bragged an trash talked Uncle Edmund, but he got his revenge on Caddie by lying to her saying that he forgot his game bag and took an awfully long time getting it. With her keen eyesight she immediately spotted a squirrel and prooved to be worthy to Uncle Edmund "'There!' she whispered, pointing to the branch of the tree some yards ahead. A squirrel sat there motionless, trying to look like a part of the tree." (pg. 37) When it was time to return Caddie took the raft, however, Uncle Edmund took out the pins that held the raft together, and the raft sank.

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Caddie is competitive when it comes to

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Clara tells Caddie to buy ladies gloves, "Clara tells Caddie to buy ladies gloves proper ones and your hands look like an Indian's hand" (pg.43).

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Caddie is fierce because she stood up to Obediah Jones. Obediah Jones had his feet on the desk, and Maggie asked him to move his feet, and he didn't. They began to fight until Miss Parker interfered between the two.

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When the fight When the fight breaks out between Obediah and Caddie, Miss Parker comes into the schoolroom, Hetty tattle tales about what happened.  Caddie confesses, "Ma'am, he wouldn't take his feet off Maggie's desk and he said he wasn't scared of anybody in this school, and I hit his legs with a ruler" (pg. 59)

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John Woodlawn takes them to Eau Galle, where the mill is located to ice skate. Tom is an expert ice skater, "Caddie and Warren were ambitious to do as well... they could only follow along in awkward imitation of his skill" (pg. 66)
Tom warns Caddie of black ice, but Warren dares Caddie to go as far as she can on the pond. The ice begins to crack and falls into the pond. Brink writes "With cool presence of mind, he [Tom] made Warren lie down, he lended his feet down until he could reach Caddie" (pg. 66)

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When Caddie arrives home from falling through the ice, her mother is exasperated, "Caddie, why can't you behave like a young lady?....Only a few days ago, you were fighting with that awful Obediah Jones. Yes, Hetty told me about it. And now you've nearly killed yourself skating on thin ice. If it isn't one thing, it's another" (pg. 67)

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At the beginning of the chapter, Caddie is a competitive speller, "Caddie and Tom had both the sportsman's love of any test of skill.
But Caddie was the better speller" (pg. 65)

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As Caddie recuperates from falling through the ice, she discovers breeches, clogs and clocks in the attic.  She notices the Circuit Rider's clock, and decides to fix it with a little help from her father. "Caddie never forgot the lesson she had learned that day in the attic.  Wherever she was, all through her long and busy life, clocks ticked about her pleasantly, and, if they didn't, she knew the reason why" (pg. 74

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devastation
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contemptuous
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When the children are listening to stories around the fire, Caddie jumps ups and goes to the attic. She brings back breeches and clogs. Mr. Woodlawn does not want his daughter to go through the same thing he went through.  John Woodlawn came from a rich family. When he was old enough to be independent, he could have just taken his family's fortune, but he insisted to make his own money. He wanted to work for it. "'It was a hard struggle, but what I have in 'life I have earned with my own hand s. I have done well, and I have an honest man's honest pride.  I want no lands and honors which I have not won by my own good sense and industry." (pg. 86) Mr. Woodlawn would never accept getting a lot of money and fancy shelter if he never tried hard to EARN it.

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As John Woodlawn tells the story of life when he was a child in England,  he tells his children, "You have grown up in a free country, children...Whatever happens I want you to think of yourselves as young Americans, and I want you to be proud of that.  It is difficult to tell you about England, because their all men are not free to pursue their own lives in their own ways. Some men live like princes, while other men must beg for the very crusts that keep them alive" (pg. 79).

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Caddie identifies as a true patriot. She holds the flag for George Washington 's birthday celebration at school. Her birthday is the same day as his. Caddie Woodlawn flag is the same as President Lincoln's, which is the Union flag. She wishes that she could be president of the United States. " I love America more than Maggie Bunn or Lida or Jane! I am more American than all of them, because-because what they did to in England" (pg. 97)

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Caddie is disappointed and jealous that Tom gave a valentine to Katie Hymen. She saw Tom sprouting potatoes at the Dunville store, and asked Mr. Adams how much the valentine costs, and he told her that the young man sprouting potatoes bought it. Tom keeps a this a secret from Caddie. When the students come in from morning recess, Caddie sees in on Katie's desk. All the children realized it was the best Valentine n the Dunville store. Caddie walked home and thought, "I do everything with Tom. I'm much more fun than Katie. Why's she's afraid of horses and snakes, and she wouldn't cross the river for world's" (pg. 93)

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Caddie thinks about being a lady when Tom gave his Valentine to Katie Hyman. "But she's what you call a little lady, and I'm just a tomboy. Maybe there's something in this lady business after all." (pg. 93)

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"Twelve years old she was. Time to be a young lady, Mother said. But Caddie didn't think so, and Father's smiling eyes were still on her side" (pg. 98)
Caddie's parents are having a heated conversation about whether or not Caddie should be a lady. Father says let her get her health back, and Mother says that when she was her age, she knew how to bake bread, jell, age, she knew how to bake bread, jell, and make different types of cakes.  Caddie interrupts  by saying she knows how to plow!

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A neighbor, Mr. Kent, comes to the Woodlawns warning of an Indian rumor of an attack. Mother calls it a  massacre. Father says that it is just a tavern rumor. He also says that the white settlers must stand together, therefore, all the neighbors can gather at their farm. Mother states, "if those wicked redskins don't fire it before they have a chance to bunk...if the savages come, I wouldn't have them eat my turkeys!" (pg. 105

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Caddie is pigeon hunting with Uncle Edmund. "This was not hunting-it was a kind of a wholesale Caddie is pigeon hunting with Uncle Edmund. "This was not hunting-it was a kind of a wholesale slaughter...Something of sadness filled her young heart as if they [pigeons] were a doomed race. The pigeons like the Indians were fighting a losing battle with the white man" (pg. 27).

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The word massacre filled the white settlers with terror. Uprisings filled the settlers of the North west (MN and WI )with apprehension. "The fear spread like a disease, nourished on rumors and race hatred" (pg.106)
The Woodlawns host the people of the surrounding neighborhood.  As the days passed nothing fearful happens as they wait in uncertainty.  When Caddie is sent to the cellar by her mother to fetch a basket of turnips, she overs hears a conversation about the Indians. "The thing to do is to attack the Indians first" (pg. 112). Another man states, "If we kill or drive these Indians out, it will be a warning to the others that we deal hard with the redskins" (pg. 113/125). One man comments it would be hard to change Woodlawn's mind.

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Caddie travels to the Indians tribe where she warned Indian John and his tribe to leave. It took her multiple tries before he understood. John ended up saying that they shall leave the next day. When they arrived home everyone were worried sick and when Mr. Woodlawn and

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Caddie has come to a decision how to spend her silver dollar. Caddie displays a random act of kindness.  She decides to spend it on the Hankinson children whose mother is going away with her tribe due to the massacre rumor. Caddie takes them to the Dunville store. Brink writes, " "The little Hankinsons Caddie has come to a decision how to spend her silver dollar. Caddie displays a random act of kindness.  She decides to spend it on the Hankinson children whose mother is going away with her tribe due to the massacre rumor. Caddie takes them to the Dunville store. Brink writes, "The little Hankinsons looked on in amazement. The black mood of despair which had enveloped them all day had turned into wonder....No one had bought such things for them before" (pg. 144).  Caddie explains to Tom why she had to spend the whole silver dollar when he asks her why she didn't keep it for herself, "No, Tom, it had to be all of it.  I wanted it to drive that awful lonesome look out of their eyes, and it did, Tom. It did" (pg. 146).  This is evidence that shows Caddie's generosity and good heart.

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"Wouldn't they be green with envy when they knew what they had missed" (pg. 133). Indian  John had left Caddie in charge of his scalp belt. When Tom and Warren find out, they all decide to have a "peep show".  Tom teases Hetty by simulating a scene of taking off a scalp. Tom takes charge of it, and he decides how to charge admission for everyone to see. The currency was all the items that Tom liked.

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Caddie has to recite a poem in front of the class and parents at the end of school. When she starts and ends her poem, she curtsies like her mom taught her, "She had acquitted herself exactly "accomplished" young lady would have done. Too bad that mother had not been there to see" (pg. 163)

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Katie Hyman doesn't show up at the scalp belt show and school. Caddie realizes that it might  be her fault because she scared her about the masacre . When she and Tom arrive at her log cabin, Caddie in her own way apologizes to Katie. "I shouldn't have made you cross your heart... it was real unkind of me" (pg. 155)

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Caddie visits little Mary's grave site by herself. Brink gives the reader insight to Caddie's thoughts, "She had come with them from Boston, but she had died so soon and gone rest on the North hill. No one missed her now, and it was hard to imagine that she would have been near Hetty's age, if she had lived...one could see so far and think far thoughts" (pg. 182/206).  This quote chose Caddie's peaceful side , and her empathy towards others.  Hetty comes up behind her, Caddie becomes the big sister as she and Hetty have a talk about Caddie being with her brothers all the time. Brink addresses Caddies feelings of empathy, "Suddenly she [Caddie] had understood for the first time that Hetty was all by herself... Was her eagerness to be the first to tell only her way of trying to make herself important in the eyes of all selfish people?" (pg. 164) Caddie understands that she, Tom and Warren were excluding Hetty from their adventures.

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Clara and Mrs. Woodlawn are talking about the latest fashions from Boston. Clara points out to Caddie, "...I suppose you're too much of a tomboy ever to learn it" (pg. 198) Caddie thinks to herself, "I'm not so much as a tomboy as they think. Perhaps I shall Clara and Mrs. Woodlawn are talking about the latest fashions from Boston. Clara points out to Caddie, "...I suppose you're too much of a tomboy ever to learn it" (pg. 198

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Caddie and Tom decide to prank Annabelle because she insults them about being uncivilized. She brags about being from Boston. The first prank is when they teach her to ride Pete, the untamed horse. The second prank Tom and Caddie pull is when Annabelle salts the sheep. The third prank is when Caddie and Tom prank Annabelle with an egg down her back while she somersaults.

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One day, after coming back from the steam boat, Mr. Woodlawn, had a weird look on his face. It seemed like he was a stranger. He had a foreign stamp on his envelope. It was from Great Britain, it said that John Woodlawn will become the new lord of the Woodlawn family. His uncle past away and it was his turn to become lord. Since the Woodlawns were Americans they did a democratic vote. They had to vote "go" or "stay". There was three "go"s and four "stay"s. In the end Caddie's family stays.

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While Caddie is up in her room alone in her bedroom because she has been punished by her mother for her behavior, Father comes up t talk to her about it. On page 215, "It's a strange thing, but somehow we expected more of girls than boys... I want you to be a woman with a wise and understanding heart, healthy in body and honest in mind. Do you think you would like to be growing up into that woman now? How about it, Caddie, have we run the colts long enough?" (pg. 216)
On page 217, Caddie comes to an understanding about her Father's talk, Brink writes, "It's was a responsibility, but as Father spoke of it, it was beautiful and precious one, Caddie was ready to go and meet it" (pg. 217)

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One day, John Woodlawn came back with a strange look on his face it was so strange that Caddie could believe he was a stranger. He was holding a envelope in one hand with a foreign stamp on it Annabelle said it was an English stamp. It said that Mr. Woodlawn's uncle which he never knew past away. That uncle was lord of a spot in Great Britain. Now it was John Woodlawn's turn to become lord but the family refused by voting.
A few weeks later the Indians come back and take the dog back and the scalp belt. The Circuit rider cam back too, but the most surprising is without boat or horse he made it in walk it took years but he made it Nero! Nero came back! And Caddie Woodlawn shared all her stories with her children and her grand-children.

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When the Circuit Rider and Nero return, many things run through Caddie's mind, "A lot has happened since last year when I dropped the nuts all over the floor. How far I've come! I'm the same girl  and yet not the same girl. I wonder if it's always like that? Folks keep growing from one person into another all their lives, and life is a lot of every day adventures. Well, whatever life is, I like it" (pg. 241)

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Ch. 24 Travelers return

Looking toward the approaching rider, her face was turned to the west. It was always be turned westwards now, for Caddie Woodlawn was a pioneer and an American (pg. 242). This is Caddie 's true identity.

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Ch. 24 Travelers return

Looking toward the approaching rider, her face was turned to the west. It was always be turned westwards now, for Caddie Woodlawn was a pioneer and an American (pg. 242). This is Caddie 's true identity.