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Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 23
Language
English
Description
When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn, " they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers and they experience the terror of a tornado.
2) May B
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a failed wheat crop nearly bankrupts the Betterly family, Pa pulls twelve-year-old May from school and hires her out to a couple new to the Kansas frontier.
Author
Series
Orphan Train adventures volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Deeply unhappy about the separation of her family because of poverty, twelve-year-old Megan gradually finds contentment and purpose in her new home on the Kansas prairie with a kind and loving adopted family.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Based on a fictional Kansas character, a very large Johnny Kaw clears the plains, tames a tornado, and creates the Rocky Mountains by throwing boulders in this original tall tale"--
6) Grasslands
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
170 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the 1880s, thirteen-year-old Thomas moves west from the aristocratic Virginia home of his grandparents to a poor Kansas farm to live with a father he barely remembers and his new stepfamily.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
161 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1878, twelve-year-old Ida Kate and her widowed father welcome a mail-order bride and her baby to their Kansas homestead, but Ida Kate soon suspects that the bride is not the woman with whom Papa has corresponded.
8) Wagon wheels
Author
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shortly after the Civil War a black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act.
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
4 CDs (4 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1878, twelve-year-old Ida Kate and her widowed father welcome a mail-order bride and her baby to their Kansas homestead, but Ida Kate soon suspects that the bride is not the woman with whom Papa has corresponded.
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