The Jumping-Off Place: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Jumping-Off Place by Marian Hurd McNeely: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 11 original MP3 tracks, 7:07:34 running time and a link to listen.
The Jumping-Off Place, credited to Marian Hurd McNeely, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of The Jumping-Off Place by Marian Hurd McNeely. Read in English by tombooker. Set in 1910, "The Jumping-Off Place" is the story of four orphaned children who leave their home in Wisconsin to "prove up" their claim to a parcel of land in South Dakota. The four Linville children -- Becky, age seventeen, and her younger siblings Dick, Phil and Joan -- had planned to take on this opportunity with the help and guidance of their Uncle Jim. His untimely death means they must "prove up" the claim on their own. Uncle Jim had planned carefully, and had left detailed instructions for Becky and her brother Jim. The children know it will be difficult -- but just how difficult they only discover when they arrive in South Dakota. They will need to overcome the challenges of summer drought, winter blizzards, and claim-jumping squatters to "prove up" their claim. They'll also need to make a place for themselves in their new community, and earn the trust and support of their neighbors. "The Jumping-Off Place" has been recognized as a Newbery Honor book for the year 1930. - Summary by Tom Booker
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Jumping-Off Place
- Author credits: Marian Hurd McNeely
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 11
- Listed recording duration: 7:07:34
Catalogue topics
- fiction
- prairie
- family
- rural life
- homesteading
- south dakota
- newbery honor
Track guide
- 01 - Chapter I: Where the West Begins — 37:39
- 02 - Chapter II: The Jumping-Off Place — 41:55
- 03 - Chapter III: Neighbors — 33:40
- 04 - Chapter IV: Troubles — 34:11
- 05 - Chapter V: Making a Home — 35:22
- 06 - Chapter VI: The Enemy Attacks — 36:02
- 07 - Chapter VII: A Message from Uncle Jim — 38:52
- 08 - Chapter VIII: Prairie Bonds — 38:36
- 09 - Chapter IX: School — 42:38
- 10 - Chapter X: Snow Bound — 45:59
- 11 - Chapter XI: The Call of the Prairie — 42:40
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