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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Remembering her mother's words, an eight-year-old girl finds courage to go alone with her father to build a new home in the Connecticut wilderness, and to stay with the Indians when her father goes back to bring the rest of the family.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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.
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Series
Language
English
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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...
4) Skylark
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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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 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
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.
6) Old Yeller
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Story of a few months in the life of a 14-year-old boy, left alone to take care of his father's family in the Texas hill country, and of his dog.
Author
Publisher
Bonneville Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
In order to avoid juvenile detention, fifteen-year-old Katie McBride, the daughter of an abusive alcoholic, goes on a "handcart trek" that mimics that of the Mormon pioneers, and, in addition to finding and reading the journal of one of her ancestors, she also finds friendship, self-respect, and faith.
Author
Series
I survived volume 16
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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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....
9) Going West
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©1992 [i.e. 1991]
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Follows a family's emigration by prairie schooner from the East, across the plains to Kansas.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Little house chapter books. Laura volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1997
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Laura and her beloved bulldog, Jack, share some wild adventures as the Wilder family moves from Wisconsin to Kansas and later to Minnesota.
Author
Series
Little house chapter books. Laura volume 4
Publisher
HarperTrophy/HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1997
Edition
1st Harper Trophy ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Laura and her sisters share some good and bad times when they attend different schools near their various prairie homes.
13) The water seeker
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Traces the hard life, filled with losses, adversity, and adventure, of Amos, son of a trapper and dowser, from 1833 when his mother dies giving birth to him until 1859, when he himself has grown up and has a son of his own.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Laura Ingalls and her family leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, they head west for the open prairie skies of Kansas Territory. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the perfect spot for Pa to build them a new home. Soon they are planting and plowing, hunting wild ducks and turkeys, and gathering grass for their cows. But just when they begin to feel settled, they are caught in the middle of a dangerous...
15) One big open sky
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Language
English
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Description
"In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska"--
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