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Summary: Travel along with Delphinia as she leaves her childhood home for an uncertain future on a Kansas homestead. Also includes a bonus historical romance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barbour Publishing, Inc 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILPeterson, Melissa.
Summary: Laura and her pioneer family struggle against hardships on the Kansas frontier, including a prairie fire, a grasshopper invasion, and a blizzard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1998
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC WILRose, Caroline Starr.
Summary: When a failed wheat crop nearly bankrupts the Betterly family, Pa pulls twelve-year-old May from school and hires her out to a couple new to the Kansas frontier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2012
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Summary: The third book in Laura Ingalls Wilder's treasured Little House series. The adventures continue for Laura Ingalls and her family as they leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and set out for the big skies of the Kansas Territory. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the best spot to build their house. Soon they are planting and plowing, hunting wild...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: Shortly after the Civil War a black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper and Row 1984
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BREOsborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Osborne 2012Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE OSBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OSBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC OSBElno, Robin
Summary: When William's father kicks him out of his Kansas home, no one--including William--thinks he'll amount to much. William suffers from an ailment that causes him to twitch uncontrollably. Of course, this is strange behavior to folks on the frontier. Needless to say, it's tough for William to make friends. William's strange tic insults an outlaw. Forced to defend himself, William discovers his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017