A Prairie Legacy · Book 1

The Tender Years

by Janette Oke

Published
1 January 1997
Pages
272
ISBN-13
9780764205279
Type
novel

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About this book

The Tender Years opens Janette Oke's A Prairie Legacy series, an inspirational fiction novel published in 1997 at 272 pages. It's the first of four books, followed by A Searching Heart.

Its place in A Prairie Legacy

The Tender Years is book 1 in the A Prairie Legacy series. It is followed by A Searching Heart. See the full A Prairie Legacy reading order.

A Prairie Legacy is a direct continuation of Oke's earlier Love Comes Softly world, following Virginia "Jenny" Marshall -- a great-granddaughter of the original Love Comes Softly family -- as a young woman coming of age on the prairie a generation or two after the events of that series. Across four books published over four consecutive years in the late 1990s, Jenny works through her education, early independence, faith, and eventual courtship and marriage, giving Oke's original fictional family one more full…

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