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Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
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 Almonzo Wilder arrives to take her home for the weekend.
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
During their first four years of marriage, Laura and Almanzo Wilder have a child and fight a losing battle in their attempts to succeed at farming on the South Dakota prairie.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper. It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however, overlays older struggles between nations of native Americans for possession of the same lands and between the native peoples and white colonisers. Through these layers of conflict Cooper threads a thrilling narrative, in which Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of a British commander...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old John Hale has already survived one brutal Dakota winter, and now he's about to experience one of the deadliest blizzards in American history. The storm of 1888 was a monster, a frozen hurricane that slammed into America's midwest without warning. Within hours, America's prairie would be buried under ten feet of snow. Hundreds would be dead, thousands terrified and lost and freezing. John never wanted to move to the wide-open prairie....
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1964]
Language
English
Description
It takes courage to leave a familiar town, a comfortable homestead, and personal belongings and old friends. It takes courage to live in a small wagon, traveling barely a hundred miles a week through Indian territory. But it takes a special, out-of-the-ordinary courage to give up the dearest treasure of the heart.
Author
Series
Brides of Wildcat County volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Although she tries to conceal her gambling activities and her family's questionable past, eighteen-year-old Eden's headstrong ways attract attention in the frontier mining town of Last Chance, California, and cause problems as she tries to find a husband.
12) Laura & Nellie
Author
Series
Little house chapter books. Laura volume 5
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Laura tries to get even with Nellie, the meanest girl in school.
Author
Publisher
Crowell
Pub. Date
[1943]
Language
English
Description
Recounts the dangers and experiences of a covered wagon trip from Missouri to the Willamette Valley, Oregon, in 1844. The story is told from the viewpoint of young Jerry Stephen who, with his cousin Jim and small Myra Dean, the doctor's daughter, went through their share of the perils of the journey bravely.
Author
Publisher
Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In pioneer days, a young girl who is a talented artist is encouraged to paint portraits, Bible scenes, and other pictures, but told never to sign her work, either because it would be a sign of pride or because artists are expected to be men.
16) Red River Girl
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In a diary covering the years 1846 to 1848, a young Metis teenager describes her journey from St. Eustace, Quebec, to St. Paul, Minnesota, where she settles with her family and decides to become a teacher.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Barbie's family sets up a backyard campsite to try living like pioneers, but when her mother needs to get an important project to work and there is too much traffic for her to get it there on time, the girls come up with a way to save the day.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1775, while traveling with her family from Virginia to Kentucky, and joined by another family along the way, eleven-year-old Elizabeth reads Gulliver's Travels to the children and keeps a journal of their adventures, which include a runaway slave, encounters with Cherokees, and a near-fatal accident.
Author
Series
Little house chapter books. Laura volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Laura Ingalls and her pioneer family encounter a variety of animals traveling through and living on the American frontier at the turn of the century.
20) Arbor Day square
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the mid-nineteenth century, as young Katie and her father help plant and tend trees in their booming frontier town, she doubts that the spindly saplings will ever grow big. Includes facts about Arbor Day.
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