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1) Nebraska
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"From visiting a sod house from the 1800s to exploring a hand-planted forest, there's lots to see and do in Nebraska! Additional features include maps on each spread, state symbols, famous people, fact bubbles, and informative captions that highlight some of the things that make Nebraska special"--Publisher's website.
2) My Antonia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A New York lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with a pioneer Bohemian girl. A novel set in Nebraska about pioneering Bohemian farmers & of the courageous heroine, Antonia. First published in 1918. In Willa Cather's own estimation, My Antonia, first published in 1918, was "the best thing I've ever done." An enduring paperback bestseller on Houghton Mifflin's literary list, this hauntingly eloquent classic now boasts a new...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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A heart-racing page-turner that hits the ground running and then accelerates all the way to a colossal showdown
“Jack Reacher is the coolest continuing series character now on offer.”—Stephen King, in Entertainment Weekly
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A heart-racing page-turner that hits the ground running and then accelerates all the way to a colossal showdown
“Jack Reacher is the coolest continuing series character now on offer.”—Stephen King, in Entertainment Weekly
There’s deadly...
4) Nebraska
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
5) O pioneers!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The story of the Bergson family and their friends and neighbors. Describes the pioneers' struggle for survival in the barren, underdeveloped Nebraska tableland.
6) Nebraska
Author
Series
Publisher
Childrens Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"This book details the history, culture, geography and government of Nebraska."--Provided by publisher.
7) Nebraska
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Describes the geography, ecology, history, economy, religions, culture and people of the state of Nebraska.
9) 1922
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Language
English
Description
"Wilfred James owns eighty acres of farmland in Nebraska that have been in his family for generations. His wife, Arlette, owns an adjoining one hundred acres. She wants to sell her land but if she does, Wilfred will be forced to sell as well. James will do anything to hold onto his farm, and he'll get his son to go along. Betrayal, murder, madness, rats, 1922 is a breathtaking exploration into the dark side of human nature from the great American...
10) Dandelions
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Zoe and her family find strength in each other as they make a new home in the Nebraska territory.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A youth's inability to control his temper ruins his life. After shooting a man for sleeping with his mother, Randall Hunsacker leaves Utah for a small town in Nebraska. Things start looking up when he becomes a football hero and marries a local belle, but his temper gets the better of him, he abuses her and she leaves him. A first novel.
13) Sixteen brides
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
Sixteen Civil War widows settle in Nebraska after they are wooed by a land speculator, only to discover that they were lured there in hopes that they would accept marriage proposals shortly after their arrival.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon...
15) My Ántonia
Author
Language
English
Description
In this symphonically powerful and magnificently observed novel, Cather created one of the most winning heroines in American fiction, a woman whose calm, undemonstrative strength and robust high spirits make her emblematic of the virtues Cather most admired in her country.
17) Nebraska
Author
Publisher
Editorial Buenas Letras
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
18) A time to bloom
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Delphinium Nielsen and her sisters have accomplished much in the past year, traveling west and settling in Nebraska. They are on their way to building a garden in dedication to their mother and working against the forces of nature to make their farm thrive. However, none of that can mask their concern that they are quickly running out of money. Del's work teaching in their booming town offers hope, not only to support her sisters financially, but...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Ted Hammond, the only sixth grader in his small Nebraska town's one-room schoolhouse, searches for clues to the disappearance of a homeless family. Ted Hammond loves a good mystery, and in the spring of his fifth-grade year, he's working on a big one. How can his school in the little town of Plattsford stay open next year if there are going to be only five students? Out here on the Great Plains in western Nebraska, everyone understands that if you...
20) Elsie's bird
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Young Elsie must find a way to adapt to her new home on the Nebraska prairie after she and her father leave their comfortable city life in Boston.
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