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1) O pioneers
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English
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O Pioneers! (1913) was Willa Cather's first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged masterpiece. No other work of fiction so faithfully conveys both the sharp physical realities and the mythic sweep of the transformation of the American frontier—and the transformation of the people who settled it. Cather's heroine is Alexandra Bergson, who arrives on the wind-blasted prairie of Hanover, Nebraska, as a girl and grows up to make it a...
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Little House volume 4
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English
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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
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Barbie's family sets up a backyard campsite to try living like pioneers, but when her mother needs to get an important project to work and there is too much traffic for her to get it there on time, the girls come up with a way to save the day.
5) Skylark
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1994.
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.
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Series
Little house chapter book volume 4
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Laura tries to get even with Nellie, the meanest girl in school. Includes a Little House family tree, games, recipes, activities, and an excerpt from Christmas Stories.
Author
Publisher
Publications International
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Over 375 pages of vintage cowboys, cavalry, desperadoes, and more! This comprehensive volume covers all the high adventure of the final frontier, featuring hundreds of historic photographs alongside authoritative text, historical profiles, and fascinating facts. Includes detailed sections - Legends of the Wild West
- Ghost Towns
- Greatest Shoot-outs
- And much more! The ultimate guide to the wild, wild West!
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Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Language
English
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love and The Masterpiece comes the powerful story of two women, centuries apart, who are joined through a tattered journal as they contend with God, husbands, and even themselves.
Sierra Madrid's life has just been turned upside down when she discovers the handcrafted quilt and journal of her ancestor Mary Kathryn McMurray, a young woman who was uprooted from her...
Sierra Madrid's life has just been turned upside down when she discovers the handcrafted quilt and journal of her ancestor Mary Kathryn McMurray, a young woman who was uprooted from her...
Author
Series
Cuatro vientos volume 117
Publisher
Noguer y Caralt Editores
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
Español
Description
At fifteen, Laura earns her teacher's certificate, gets a job, and starts going to parties.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Best-selling author David McCullough tells the story of the settlers who began America's migration west, overcoming almost-unimaginable hardships to build in the Ohio wilderness a town and a government that incorporated America's highest ideals"--
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books/Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees"--Provided by publisher....
Author
Series
Cuatro vientos volume 111
Publisher
Noguer y Caralt Editores
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
Español
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.
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