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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.
3) Skylark
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 1
Language
English
Description
A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors.
Author
Series
Vengeance road volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When her father is killed by the notorious Rose Riders for a mysterious journal that reveals the secret location of a gold mine, eighteen-year-old Kate Thompson disguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers--and justice"--
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 5
Language
English
Description
Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A tough Minnesota winter brings many changes to Kirsten's frontier life, including the new responsibility of helping her brother Lars set his traps and a move into a new house for her family.
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 7
Language
English
Description
Pa's homestead thrives, Laura gets her first job in town, blackbirds eat the corn and oats crops, Mary goes to college, and Laura gets into trouble at school, but becomes a certified school teacher.
12) Red dog
Author
Language
English
Description
Living with his family in the rugged, often dangerous, Wyoming mountains in the 1860's, twelve-year-old Adam finds his courage put to the test when he is left in charge of the household during his stepfather's absence.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Sallie March is a whip-smart tomboy and voracious reader of Western adventure novels. When she and her sister Maude escape their self-serving guardians for the wilds of the frontier, they begin an adventure the likes of which Sallie has only read about. This time however, the "wanted woman" isn't a dime-novel villian, it's Sallie's very own sister! What follows is not the lies the papers printed, but the honest-to-goodness...
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.
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 8
Language
English
Description
Laura has her first experiences as a teacher, and is courted by Almanzo Wilder.
Fifteen-year-old Laura learns that living away from home and teaching school can be a bit frightening when most of the students are taller than she is, but every week Almanzo Wilder arrives to take her to her family for the weekend.
19) Winter danger
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
ix, 131 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
A young pioneer boy must adjust to settled frontier life when his father leaves him with relatives and returns to the woods.
20) Dakota dugout
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
[1985]
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A woman describes her experiences living with her husband in a sod house on the Dakota prairie.
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