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42) Tucket's home
Author
Series
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Francis Tucket and his adopted family, Billy and Lottie have been held together by their goal to find Francis's family on the Oregon Trail. They also share a secret; the treasure hidden in their saddlebags. Now the three meet up with a British adventurer, with men of faith and hope, and with bloodthirsty ex-soldiers. Even here, at the end of the trail, surprises and tragic turns await them.
43) May B
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
231 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When a failed wheat crop nearly bankrupts the Betterly family, Pa pulls twelve-year-old May, who suffers from dyslexia, from school and hires her out to a couple new to the Kansas frontier.
44) The quilt walk
Author
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten-year-old Emmy Blue learns the true meaning of friendship--and how to quilt--while making a harrowing wagon journey from Illinois to Colorado with her family in the 1860s.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1851 twelve-year-old Sarah is a free Black, happy living with her parents, grandparents, and brother on their own farm in Iowa; but her father has been bitten by the gold bug and wants to take the trail west to California, and after some argument it is decided that the the grandparents will stay on the farm, but the rest of the family will go; the journey will be difficult and dangerous, but if they survive extreme weather, difficult terrain, illness,...
46) Roses for Mama
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1991
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
222 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
She's cared for her siblings as best she could . . . but is it enough? Instead of the new life she and her family expected to forge out west, seventeen-year-old Angela is thrust into the role of caring for her three younger siblings after the death of their parents. With the help of her older brother, and trust in God, Angela is determined to raise the children as her mother would have wanted. As the youngsters grow, the questions and challenges intensify....
Author
Series
Little house chapter book volume 5
Language
English
Description
Laura Ingalls and her family celebrate several joyous Christmases on the western frontier. Join Laura and her family for some pioneer Christmas celebrations. Christmas on the frontier means visits from friends, good things to eat, and presents! For Laura, every Christmas in the little house is better than the one before. Gentle adaptations of Laura Ingalls Wilder's celebrated Little House stories have been gathered together here in two new titles...
50) Elsie's bird
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
AD 890L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Young Elsie must find a way to adapt to her new home on the Nebraska prairie after she and her father leave their comfortable city life in Boston.
Author
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
In 1934, eleven-year-old Terpsichore's father signs up for President Roosevelt's Palmer Colony project, uprooting the family from Wisconsin to become pioneers in Alaska, where Terpsichore refuses to let rough conditions and first impressions get in the way of her grand adventure.
Author
Series
Spirit riding free volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lucky Prescott craves adventure, but as a young lady of society she's only been allowed to experience adventure through books. That is, until one fateful day when Lucky, her father, and her aunt leave their neat-and-tidy city life and travel to their new home out west -- the Wild West. At first Lucky is excited, but during the long train ride to her new hometown of Miradero, she begins to worry. What if she doesn't make any new friends?...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
293 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the "wild west" of an 1880s California gold-mining town, Angeline investigates the supposed murder of her father, a famous criminal lawyer, who she and her mother are certain is still alive. Includes historical notes and instructions for making a mask from muslin.
56) Washday
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 600L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Lexile measure
880L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
When Hallie and her parents join a wagon train to Oregon and leave her grandmother behind, Hallie must learn to face the storms that frighten her so, as well as other, newer fears, with just her grandmother's quilt to comfort her.
59) One big open sky
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska. Although free from slavery, three women are still constrained by poverty, limited access to opportunity and restrictions put on women. Will they survive the perils of their journey to fight these barriers?"--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
470L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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.