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(0)Nicole Lea Helget
Author
Language
English
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Description
A memoir of Nicole Lea Helget's childhood on a family farm in Minnesota. Helget layers vignettes to create a lyrical story of growing up on a Minnesota farm in the 1980s, where her father suffers from alcoholism and her mother verges on insanity. The eldest of six daughters, Helget presents unforgettable, sometimes hilarious images that spill from a fierce and wondrous childhood into the pages of The Summer of Ordinary Ways.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young woman's secret may tear her rural Minnesota community apart, in this "emotional tale of star-crossed love, vengeance and regret" (Publishers Weekly). In the tumultuous days after World War I, Herman Richter returns from the front to find his only sister, Liesel, allied with Lester Sutter, the "slow" son of a rival clan who spends his days expertly trapping lake turtles. Liesel has sought Lester's friendship in the wake of her parents' deaths...
3) Stillwater
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Clement and Angel are fraternal twins separated at birth; they grow up in the same small, frontier logging town of Stillwater, Minnesota. Clement was left at the orphanage; Angel was adopted by the town's richest couple, but is marked and threatened by her mother's mental illness. They rarely meet, but Clement knows if he is truly in need, Angel will come to save him. Stillwater, near the Mississippi River and Canada, becomes an important stop on...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
266 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Fern helps to take care of her impoverished family by foraging for food in the forest, but when a fracking company rolls into town, she realizes that her peaceful woods and her family's livelihood could be threatened"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lu Wonder, a bright, curious girl who hopes to be a scientist, sets out from her Kansas home in 1855 with her best friend Eustace, a slave, on a journey to Antarctica to protect a mysterious artifact and hide it from the man responsible for her father's death.
Author
Publisher
River Horse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"After his family rushes out the door for the first day of school, Peanut Butter the dog finds himself all alone for the first time. Bored, curious, and lonely, Peanut Butter sneaks out of the house in search of an adventure. He encounters new animals, explores new places, smells new smells, and even makes a friend. But before he realizes it, the day is nearly over, and he must race home before the kids get off the bus and find out he hasn't exactly...
7) Horse camp
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
940L
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in their separate voices, twelve-year-old twins Percy and Penny are excited to spend a summer riding horses on their Uncle Stretch's Minnesota spread, until they discover it is a pig farm.
8) Mongols
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
c2013
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (48 p.) : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines the history of the Mongols and their emphasis on warfare, as well as how descendents of the Mongols live today.
9) Barbarians
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
c2013
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (48 p.) : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the history of the Barbarian peoples of northern Europe and how they and their migration patterns led to the fall of the Roman Empire, and what happened afterward.
10) Swans
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
1090L
Physical Desc
46 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the physical characteristics, habitats, migration, mating behavior, family life, and cultural impact of the swan.