HarperTrophy, New York, 1994.  ISBN 0-06-440004-2.  Trade soft cover, 339 pages.  Some edge and cover wear, light creases and scratches, light reading creases; binding tight, touch of soil on top page block.  Interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanned pages; black & white illustrations by Garth Williams.  ‘The Ingalls family moves from Kansas to Minnesota.  The family’s first home in Minnesota was made of sod.  But Pa builds a clean new house beside Plum Creek.  The money for materials will come from their first wheat harvest.  Then, just before the wheat is ready to harvest, a strange glittering cloud fills the sky, blocking out the sun.  Soon millions of grasshoppers cover the field and everything on the farm.  In a week’s time, there is no wheat crop left at all.’ (from rear wrap)