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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"From Kristin Hannah, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras-the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
A youth in a tribe of Plains Indians gives up a girlfriend to serve as a holy man's pipe bearer, first step in becoming a holy man himself. The novel follows his training in communicating with spirits and in preserving tribal legends and culture. By the author of Child of the Dead.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the frigid days of February, 1870, Caroline Ingalls, her husband Charles, and their little girls, Mary and Laura, leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and head west to settle in a beautiful, unpredictable land full of promise and peril--the Kansas Indian Territory. The pioneer life is a hard one, especially for a pregnant woman with no friends or kin to turn to for comfort or help. The burden of work must be shouldered alone,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire. Includes a detailed account of how the novel was written and published.
10) Caleb's story
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sequel to: Skylark.
The stranger lurking on the Witting family's prairie farm turns out to be their long-lost grandfather, whose presence plus prodding from Sarah forces Jacob to deal with his past.
Author
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Cassie Witting is upset when she finds out that her mother, Sarah, is expecting a baby, but writing in the journal that belonged to her brother Caleb helps her sort out her feelings and understand that Sarah will always love her.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2014
Language
English
Description
In 1880, Pemmican lay at the western edge of the Great Plains. Nearly a decade later, surveyors of the 49th parallel reached the small community to find it straddling the new Canadian-U.S. border. Now known as Bordertown, local law enforcement is dealt with on one side by Clive Bennett, a Mountie, and on the other by U.S. Marshal Jack Craddock. Not only do Clive and Jack share a jurisdiction and an office, they also share a love for the same woman....
Publisher
Imavision Distribution
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Look Back to Yesterday Directed by Victor French -- Charles Ingalls pays a return visit to Walnut Grove. During his stay he learns that his son Albert, a doctor in training, has contracted a fatal blood disease. Also, Walnut Grove is facing a recession.
Bless All the Dear Children Directed by Victor French -- Laura and Almanzo's baby is kidnapped during the Christmas season. The family finds her with a woman who was longing to have a child of her...
20) Makoons
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living with their Ojibwe family on the Great Plains of Dakota Territory in 1866, twin brothers Makoons and Chickadee must learn to become buffalo hunters, but Makoons has a vision that foretells great challenges that his family may not be able to overcome.
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