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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Formats
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.
Author
Publisher
Bradbury Press
Pub. Date
c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After traveling from Connecticut to Ohio in 1800 to start a new life in the settlement of Aurora, the Sheldons find that they are the first family to arrive there and realize that they will be starting a new community by themselves.
3) Warm as wool
Author
Publisher
Bradbury Press
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Betsy Ward's family moves to Ohio from Connecticut in 1803, she brings along a sockful of coins to buy sheep so that she can gather wool, spin cloth, and make clothes to keep her children warm.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c1988
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.
6) Going West
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Follows a family's emigration by prairie schooner from the East, across the plains to Kansas.
8) Washday
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
One sunny Saturday in 1889, Lizzie helps her grandmother scrub, boil, rinse, and hang loads of laundry, although she would rather be having a tea party with her best friend, Lucy, and their dolls, Amelia Cordelia and Belinda Lavinia.
9) Old Yeller
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Kirsten is proud and excited when she finds a bee tree full of honey, one of the natural treasures of her Minnesota frontier world, but she exposes herself to great danger by trying to harvest the honey by herself.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
While traveling in 1883 with her Italian American family (including a meddlesome little sister) and other immigrant pioneers to a utopian community in Idaho, fourteen-year-old Teresa keeps a diary of her experiences along the way.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
When a pioneer family moves west the mother misses home so much that she will not even name the new baby until her daughter thinks of just the right thing to cheer her up.
18) 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.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Young Jesse and his family are with a wagon train traveling from Indiana to Oregon when they stop to celebrate the Fourth of July, but Jesse is too young to go hunting with the men so he comes up with his own contribution to the festivities.
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