''Magical Melons'' (also published as ''Caddie Woodlawn's Family'') is a children's historical novel by

Carol Ryrie Brink Carol Ryrie Brink (December 28, 1895 – August 15, 1981) was an American writer of over thirty juvenile and adult books. Her novel ''Caddie Woodlawn'' won the 1936 Newbery Medal and a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958. Lifetime Caroline S ...

, first published in 1939. It is the sequel to the Newbery-Award-winning novel ''

Caddie Woodlawn ''Caddie Woodlawn'' is a children's historical fiction novel by Carol Ryrie Brink that received the Newbery Medal in 1936 and a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958. The original 1935 edition was illustrated by Newbery-award-winning author and illu ...

''.

Plot

Set between 1863 and 1866, ''Magical Melons'' takes the form of a collection of stories about the Woodlawn family, with many stories overlapping chronologically with the first book.

References

1939 American novels American children's novels Children's historical novels Novels set in the 1860s Novels set in Wisconsin 1939 children's books Children's books set in Wisconsin Children's books set in the 1860s {{1930s-child-hist-novel-stub