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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"During Sarah Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the country's changing economic policies solidified her family's place among the working poor. By telling the story of her life and the lives of the people she loves, Smarsh challenges us to examine the class divide in our country and the myths about people thought to be less because they earn less. Her personal history affirms the corrosive impact intergenerational poverty...
Author
Series
100 cupboards volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After his parents are kidnapped, timid twelve-year-old Henry York leaves his sheltered Boston life and moves to small-town Kansas, where he and his cousin Henrietta discover and explore hidden doors in his attic room that seem to open onto other worlds.
3) Dark places
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
For a price Libby Day will reconnect with the players that murdered her mother and two sisters in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas." Having testified that her brother Ben was the murderer on that fateful night twenty-five years ago, now she is not so sure as, piece by piece, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started--on the run from a killer.
4) Gilead
Author
Series
Gilead novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Reverend John Ames is dying in 1956 in Gilead, Iowa. Glory Boughton has returned to care for her dying father and soon her brother, Jack, the prodigal son, comes home, too. As the Reverend John Ames approaches the hour of his own death, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets.
Author
Series
100 cupboards volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the continuing adventures of Henry York, who has been living in Kansas with his cousins, where he discovers doorways leading to other worlds and becomes involved in a multi-world struggle between good and evil.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Based on Thomas Frank's best-seller, What's the matter with Kansas? shows how Kansas transformed from an outpost of radicalism to a bastion of hard-core conservatism. Unforgettable characters and their stories shed new light on our nation's political divide.
8) Kansas
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"With its wide-open spaces, seemingly endless expanses of farmland, and charming small towns, Kansas is truly the heartland of America. Readers will explore the state's most amazing landmarks and find out what it is like to live there, from what kinds of jobs people do to which sports teams they cheer for" --
9) Kansas
Author
Series
Publisher
The Child's World
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"From Monument Rocks, badlands, and plains to cowboys in Dodge City, there's lots to see and do in Kansas! Additional features include maps on each spread, state symbols, famous people, fact bubbles, and informative captions that highlight some of the things that make Kansas special"--
10) Kansas
Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about Kansas. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--
Author
Series
100 cupboards volume 3
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Henry York, finally reunited with his family, works with them and the Chestnut King, the long-deposed and mythic leader of the faeren people, to destroy Nimiane and her forces of evil.
Author
Series
Mad Dog and Englishman mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
15) Kansas
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, a Division of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Explores the land, people, history, economy, and travel opportunities of the state of Kansas.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: Asian Pacific American Award for Literature
Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade
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Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade
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Formats
Description
Just when twelve-year-old Summer thinks nothing else can possibly go wrong in a year of bad luck, an emergency takes her parents to Japan, leaving Summer to care for her little brother while helping her grandmother cook and do laundry for harvest workers.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 23
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn," they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers and they experience the terror of a tornado.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Fresh off of a gutsy, thrilling 2023 Super Bowl win for the Kansas City Chiefs, two inspiring stories that fit perfectly together--a biography of superstar quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, who brought the Chiefs to their first Super Bowl win in fifty years in 2020 as well as a second in 2023, along with the historical struggles and recent resurgence of the former "Paris of the Plains," Kansas City"--
Author
Series
Mad Dog and Englishman mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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