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1) Mudville
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
For twenty-two years, since a fateful baseball game against their rival town, it has rained in Moundville, so when the rain finally stops, twelve-year-old Roy, his friends, and foster brother Sturgis dare to face the curse and form a team.
2) Lawn boy
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Things get out of hand for a twelve-year-old boy when a neighbor convinces him to expand his summer lawn mowing business.
5) Horse camp
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in their separate voices, twelve-year-old twins Percy and Penny are excited to spend a summer riding horses on their Uncle Stretch's Minnesota spread, until they discover it is a pig farm.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
31 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 16 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1856, Kirsten and her cousins look after the farm while the adults go to town for supplies, and everything is fine--until a blizzard surprises them.
9) Dancing Carl
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Second Aladdin paperbacks edition.
Physical Desc
105 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
As winter progresses, the strange man in the worn flight jacket dances frequently on the ice of the rink, expressing more with his movements than most people do with words, and twelve-year-olds Marsh and Willy try to learn his secret.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Each member of Erik Sheepflattener's modern-day Viking-heritage family has a motto to live by. Erik is developing a motto he can truly believe in : avoid stuff. But when he and his older sister Brunhilde spend the summer with their rough-and-tumble cousins in Minnesota, axe-wielding Bru gets the idea to name and conquer all of Erik's fears."
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
164 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After grasshoppers ruin the crops, eight-year-old Laura Ingalls and her family leave Plum Creek and move to Burr Oak, Iowa, where they experience life in a small town and help manage a hotel.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the small town of Rusty Nail, Minnesota, in the early 1950s, musically talented ten-year-old Franny wants to take advanced piano lessons from newcomer Olga Malenkov, a famous Russian musician suspected of being a communist spy by gossipy members of the community.
13) Slap-shot slump
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
89 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
At his old school fourteen-year-old Simon Wahlberg was the best player on his hockey team, but when he tries out for the Edgewater High School's varsity team he discovers that the competition is pretty fierce--and not just on the ice.
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
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two best friends discover the joy of meeting someone new in the second book in this classic children's series set in 1910 Minnesota.
Betsy and Tacy are best friends. Then Tib moves into the neighborhood and the three of them start to play together. The grown-ups think they will quarrel, but they don't. Sometimes they quarrel with Betsy's and Tacy's bossy big sisters, but they never quarrel among themselves.
They are not as good as they...
Betsy and Tacy are best friends. Then Tib moves into the neighborhood and the three of them start to play together. The grown-ups think they will quarrel, but they don't. Sometimes they quarrel with Betsy's and Tacy's bossy big sisters, but they never quarrel among themselves.
They are not as good as they...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
An introspective boy and an adventurous girl uncover a poignant family mystery during a summer on the shores of Three Bird Lake. For as long as he can remember, Adam and his parents have spent their summers at his grandmother's rustic cabin on Three Bird Lake. But this year will be different. There will be no rowdy cousins running around tormenting Adam. There will be no Uncle John or Aunt Jean. And there will be no Dad to fight with Mom. This year,...
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1989.
Physical Desc
100 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Carley recalls the extraordinary summer when, as a troubled fourteen-year-old, he first came to northern Minnesota to stay with his blacksmith Uncle David and gained not only new skills but also a new sense of himself.
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