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Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 10
Language
English
Description
Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to the Wild West, where they experience excitement and danger and try to solve a riddle.
Author
Pub. Date
[1989]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
After traveling from Connecticut to Ohio in 1800 to start a new life in the settlement of Aurora, the Sheldons find that they are the first family to arrive there and realize that they will be starting a new community by themselves.
7) Going West
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1992]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
45 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows a family's emigration by prairie schooner from the East, across the plains to Kansas.
8) Going west
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1996.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young pioneer girl and her family prepare to leave the big woods of Wisconsin and travel west in their covered wagon.
11) Buffalo thunder
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
When young Karl Isaac heads west with his family in a prairie schooner, he experiences many things but longs to see buffalo.
12) Nora's chicks
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Arriving on the American prairie in the hope of making a new home, Nora, a little girl from Russia, struggles with loneliness until Papa brings her a dozen chicks and two geese who follow Nora everywhere she goes.
14) Wagons west!
Author
Language
English
Description
A rhyming story of a family's move by wagon train between Missouri and Oregon in the 1850's and their daughter's role in outwitting cattle thieves.
15) Washday
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
One sunny Saturday in 1889, Lizzie helps her grandmother scrub, boil, rinse, and hang loads of laundry, although she would rather be having a tea party with her best friend, Lucy, and their dolls, Amelia Cordelia and Belinda Lavinia.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Book for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
38 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account describing how John Chapman was joined in the western Pennsylvania wilderness by his half-brother Nathaniel, who was unprepared for John's spartan lifestyle and unusual ways.
17) Hog music
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Travelers along the National Road help make sure that the birthday gift that Lucy's great aunt has sent makes it all the way from Maryland to her family's farm in Illinois.
18) Taking charge
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
When her mother has to leave home suddenly, Amanda learns how demanding it is to run a household and care for a baby.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Young Lydia struggles to say goodbye to her grandmother as her parents finish packing their wagon for the long journey to Oregon in the nineteenth century.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[1990]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
On the first Christmas after Eleanor's family moves to a house on the prairie, everyone becomes worried when Papa goes out to cut down a Christmas tree and does not come back.
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