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2) Skylark
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English
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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.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 5
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English
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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.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 8
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English
Description
Laura has her first experiences as a teacher, and is courted by Almanzo Wilder.
9) Old Yeller
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English
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The story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country of the 1860s.
10) Hattie Big Sky
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English
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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.
11) The water seeker
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Pub. Date
[2010]
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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.
12) Apples to Oregon
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Pub. Date
2003.
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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.
13) One big open sky
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
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English
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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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...
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This beloved story of a pioneer girl and her family begins in 1871 in a log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Laura lives in the little house with her pa, her ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their dog, Jack. Pioneer life is sometimes hard for the family, but it is also exciting as they make their own homemade toys and treats, do the spring planting, bring in the harvest, and visit town. And every night Laura and her family are...
16) Prairie day
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Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A little girl and her pioneer family travel westward to find a new home on the prairie.
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