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Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
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
Author
Series
Sarah, plain and tall volume 1
LRS cornerstone
The Witting family volume 1
Sarah plain and tall volume 1
LRS cornerstone
The Witting family volume 1
Sarah plain and tall volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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
3) Old Yeller
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the rugged landscape of early frontier Texas, fourteen-year-old Travis is faced with taking over his family's farm and making a painful, important decision
4) Elsie's bird
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2010
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
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
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. Until the day his father returns to their cabin in the Maine wilderness, twelve-year-old Matt must try to survive on his own. Although Matt is brave he's not prepared for an attack by swarming bees and he's astonished when he's rescued by an Indian chief and his grandson, Attean. As the boys come...
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
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
8) School days
Author
Series
Little house chapter books. Laura volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
©1997
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
Author
Series
American girls collection. Kirsten volume 6
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
©1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A tough Minnesota winter brings many changes to Kirsten's frontier life, including the new responsibility of helping her brother Lars set his traps and a move into a new house for her family
Author
Series
Little house chapter books. Laura volume 12
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Stories about Laura's father and life on the frontier
11) Mr. Tucket
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild. Fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is heading west on the Oregon Trail with his family by wagon train. When he receives a rifle for his birthday, he is thrilled that he is being treated like an adult. But Francis lags behind to practice shooting and is captured...
Author
Series
American girls collection. Kirsten volume 3
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
©1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Kirsten and her family celebrate their first Christmas in their new home on Uncle Olav's farm in mid-nineteenth-century Minnesota
Author
Series
Little house chapter books. Laura volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
1997
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
American girls collection. Kirsten volume 4
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
[1987]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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
17) Laura & Nellie
Author
Series
Little house chapter books. Laura volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Laura tries to get even with Nellie, the meanest girl in school
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
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
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
©1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Kirsten keeps her friendship with a Sioux Indian girl a secret until Kirsten's little brother becomes lost in the woods. Includes a section on Sioux Indians and a project related to the story
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