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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.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ribgy
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Penny Tucker is not happy when her family decides to head out west in search of gold. the journey to California is long and difficult, and the family discovers little gold. But what they find instead is something even better : a new home.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Sent into the wilderness of eastern Oregon in 1907 to round up the family's escaped horses, twelve-year-old Wart struggles against great dangers before gaining his father's respect.
5) Old Yeller
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
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
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
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.
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
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.
11) Skylark
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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.
12) The water seeker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
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
Life of faith: Millie Keith volume 1
(Kersten R.)Life of faith.Millie Keith volume 1
Life of faith Millie Keith volume 1
(Kersten R.)Life of faith.Millie Keith volume 1
Life of faith Millie Keith volume 1
Publisher
Mission City Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
In 1833, twelve-year old Millie Keith finds herself responsible for her seven brothers and sisters as her family moves from Lansdale, Ohio, to an undeveloped prairie town in Indiana.
Author
Series
Life of faith: Millie Keith volume 4
Life of faith Millie Keith volume 4
(Kersten R.)Life of faith.Millie Keith volume 4
Life of faith Millie Keith volume 4
(Kersten R.)Life of faith.Millie Keith volume 4
Publisher
Mission City Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Before arriving at her uncle's Southern plantation, Millie Keith vowed to give her heart to Jesus, to honor her parents, and to always follow God's will, but she finds her convictions tested in ways she never imagined after she falls into the high society life surrounding her.
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 2
Little house books volume 2
Little house on the prairie volume 2
Little house books volume 2
Little house on the prairie volume 2
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grandview Pub. Co
Pub. Date
�2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Takini is a special boy, adopted by Chief Sitting Bull, and gifted with special powers. He discovers a plan for the 'bluecoats'- United States Government soldiers - to attack Indian villages. Will he live to warn his tribe?
Author
Series
I survived volume 16
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
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....
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.
20) Going west
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1996
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young pioneer girl and her family prepare to leave the big woods of Wisconsin and travel west in their covered wagon.
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