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Sarah, plain and tall volume 1
Sarah plain and tall volume 1

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When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.

2) The sign of the beaver

Author

Speare, Elizabeth George

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Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.

3) By the shores of Silver Lake

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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 5

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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.

4) A packet of seeds

Author

Hopkinson, Deborah

Pub. Date

c2004

Physical Desc

1 v. (unpaged) : col ill. ; 25 cm.

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When a pioneer family moves west the mother misses home so much that she will not even name the new baby until her daughter thinks of just the right thing to cheer her up.

5) Climbing the rainbow

Author

Hulme, Joy N

Pub. Date

c2004

Physical Desc

210 p. ; 22 cm.

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In this sequel to "The Other Side of the Door," ten-year-old Dora makes a quilt to record her experiences as she finally starts school and her Mormon family's efforts to secure homestead rights for their farm in New Mexico.

6) Nora's chicks

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Pub. Date

2013

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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.

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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.

7) Under a painted sky

Author

Lee, Stacey

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American girls collection

"In 1845, Sammy, a Chinese American girl, and Annamae, an African American slave girl, disguise themselves as boys and travel on the Oregon Trail to California from Missouri"--

8) Kirsten's surprise: a Christmas story

Author

Shaw, Janet Beeler

Series

Pub. Date

c1986

Physical Desc

62 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.

Description

Kirsten and her family celebrate their first Christmas in their new home on Uncle Olav's farm in mid-nineteenth-century Minnesota.

9) The water seeker

Author

Holt, Kimberly Willis

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“When I was a boy, my pa dowsed to earn extra money when we had a lean year. And when he put the branch in my hands for the first time, I felt a burning inside me because I had the gift, too. Just be thankful I didn’t hand that gift down to you.”
Amos figured it was probably best not to tell his father that it was too late.

What would you do if you knew you had a special gift—a sixth sense—that was passed...

10) Skylark

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Sarah, plain and tall volume 2
Sarah plain and tall volume 2

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The second book in the series that began with the Newbery Medal–winning Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan.

My mother, Sarah, doesn't love the prairie. She tries, but she can't help remembering what she knew first.

Sarah came to the prairie from Maine to marry Papa. But that summer, a drought turned the land dry and brown. Fires swept across the fields and coyotes came to the well in search of water.

...

11) Apples to Oregon: being the (slightly) true narrative of how a brave pioneer father brought apples, peaches, pears, plums, grapes, and cherries (and children) across the Plains

Author

Hopkinson, Deborah

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American girls collection

A pioneer father transports his beloved fruit trees and his family to Oregon in the mid-nineteenth century. Based loosely on the life of Henderson Luelling.

12) Happy birthday, Kirsten!: a springtime story

Author

Shaw, Janet Beeler

Series

Pub. Date

c1987

Physical Desc

58 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.

Description

On a Minnesota farm in the mid 1800's, the hard working members of the Larson family find time to celebrate Kirsten's tenth birthday.

13) Ghost town at sundown

Author

Osborne, Mary Pope

Series

Magic tree house. Original series volume 10

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Is this town haunted? That's what Jack and Annie wonder when the magic tree house whisks them to the Wild West. Soon they run into horse thieves, rattlesnakes, a cowboy named Slim ... and maybe even a ghost! Can they solve the riddle that lets them get along home?

14) Hattie Big Sky

Author

Larson, Kirby

Series

Hattie

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NEWBERY HONOR AWARD WINNER
A classic YA novel about a teenage girl searching for a sense of home and family that celebrates the true spirit of independence on the American frontier.
For most of her life, sixteen-year-old Hattie Brooks has been shuttled from one distant relative to another. Tired of being Hattie Here-and-There, she summons the courage to leave Iowa and move all by herself to...

15) These happy golden years

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Series

Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 8

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Laura has her first experiences as a teacher, and is courted by Almanzo Wilder.

16) The long winter

Author

Series

Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 6

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After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather.

17) On the banks of Plum Creek

Author

Series

Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 4

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Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.

18) Sarah, plain and tall: Skylark ; Caleb's story

Author

Series

Sarah, plain and tall volume 1
Sarah plain and tall volume 1

Pub. Date

p2001

Physical Desc

4 sound discs (4 1/2 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Description

From the beginning when Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother, to the time in the city during the drought, and further adventures of life on the prairie. Includes an interview with the author.

19) Little town on the prairie

Author

Series

Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 7

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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.

20) The first four years

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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 9

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