Spring arrives and the Shimerdas have a home the neighbors helped them build in March. Jim now gives reading lessons to Yulka. A'ntonia is fifteen years old and is no longer a child to Jim. Jim visits A'ntonia on behalf of his grandmother to ask if she will attend school. A'ntonia cannot go because she has to help with the farming, but she wants Jim to tell her what he learns and mentions how educated her father was. Jim stays for dinner, but the discussion becomes mean.....
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