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"In the frigid days of February, 1870, Caroline Ingalls, her husband Charles, and their little girls, Mary and Laura, leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and head west to settle in a beautiful, unpredictable land full of promise and peril--the Kansas Indian Territory. The pioneer life is a hard one, especially for a pregnant woman with no friends or kin to turn to for comfort or help. The burden of work must be shouldered alone,...
Author
Series
Little house books volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
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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.
43) The big dark sky
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English
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Drawn to a Montana homestead and to a strange childhood companion she'd long forgotten, Joanna Chase and others converge on this remote ranch where a madman lurks with a vision to save the future through murder, forcing them all to come together to save themselves--and humanity.
Author
Series
Leah's garden volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Larkspur Nielsen is ready for a change. Her parents have passed on, and her older brother is successfully running the family business. She bristles at the small-mindedness that permeates life in her small Ohio community, and she sees little chance of a satisfying future there. She has a little money saved, and after turning the tables on a crooked gambler who had fleeced several locals, including her younger brother, she can stake a new start for...
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Wild West Wind volume 2
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English
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Book Two in Lauraine Snelling's Exciting Wild West Wind Series
After fleeing North Dakota and the now defunct Wild West Show, Cassie Lockwood and her companions have finally found the hidden valley in South Dakota where her father had dreamed of putting down roots. But to her dismay, she discovers a ranch already built on her land.
Cassie's arrival surprises Mavis Engstrom and forces her to reveal secrets she's kept hidden for years. Her son Ransom...
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xvi, 777 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"In 1857 a young midwife braves the perilous journey west from New York City to Santa Fe, New Mexico Territory in this captivating epic from Sara Donati, the international bestselling author of Where the Light Enters. Carrie Ballentyne's life was upended in 1845 when she had to leave the only home she'd ever known in the mountains of upstate New York. With her are her widowed mother and younger brother Nathan, but the separation from Bonner, Ballentyne,...
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Series
Red River of the north volume 3
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Taming the land came at great price. Will their love survive the loss?
It has required long, difficult years to tame the virgin prairie of Dakota Territory, but in spite of heartache and back-breaking labor, the hardy immigrants recognize that God has been with them every step. What was merely a dream is now beginning to take shape. And so they face the challenge of proving up their homesteads and building an official town for their growing community.
Hjelmer...
Author
Series
Red River of the north volume 4
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Ever so slowly Dakota Territory is being transformed from a vast prairie into rich farmland. With the coming of the railroad, the small town of Blessing begins to prosper, and the Bjorklund family is reaping the promised harvest that had lured them from their beloved home in Norway.
But for Ingeborg and Haakan, realizing their dreams will not come without a struggle. After their own fields are harvested, Haakan and the neighboring men take the steam...
52) A new day rising
Author
Series
Red River of the North volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
53) Valley of dreams
Author
Series
Wild west wind volume 1
Language
English
Description
Addy Lockwood's mother died when she was little, so Addy traveled with her father's Wild West Show and became an amazingly skillful trick rider, likened by some to the famous Annie Oakley. When her father died, she continued to work with the show, having nowhere else to go.
Now Addy has discovered that "Uncle" Jason, the show's manager, has driven the show into debt, and he's absconded with what little money was left. Devastated, Addy decides to...
54) Wagon wheels
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Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
Newly ill. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shortly after the Civil War, a Black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act.
57) An untamed land
Author
Series
The Red River of the north volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
She had promised herself that once they left the fjords of Norway, she would never look back.
The promise of free land lures Roald and Ingeborg Bjorklund from their beloved home high above the fjords of Norway, and after three long years of scrimping and saving to buy tickets for their passage to America, they finally arrive at the docks of New York City. This new land promises a rich heritage for their children, and here they hope to build a good...
Author
Series
Virtues and vices of the old West volume 2
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1866 Montana Territory, homeless and bereft Rachel Matthews turns to the life of a dance hall girl in the hopes of buying her family ranch back, until cattle baron John McIntyre gives her a hand as a favor to her brother.
59) Caddie Woodlawn
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.
60) A heart's danger
Author
Series
A journey of the heart volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
As the people of Fort Laramie stand at the brink of war with the Sioux, Sarah exposes a trap prepared for her love, Rand, by the man's rival and Rand's own fianc�ee.