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1) My Ántonia
Author
Language
English
Description
In this symphonically powerful novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning heroines in American fiction, a woman whose robust high spirits and calm, undemonstrative strength are emblematic of the virtues Cather most admired in her country.
Antonia Shimerda is the daughter of Bohemian immigrants struggling with the oceanic loneliness of life on the Nebraska prairie. Through the eyes of Jim Burden, her tutor and disappointed...
Antonia Shimerda is the daughter of Bohemian immigrants struggling with the oceanic loneliness of life on the Nebraska prairie. Through the eyes of Jim Burden, her tutor and disappointed...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Settling in the swamps of early-nineteenth-century Ohio, the Goodenough family establishes an apple orchard that begins a long family battle, and years later, as their youngest son wanders through Gold Rush California, his family's past makes an unexpected appearance.
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Series
Heart of the frontier volume 1
Language
English
Description
On the grueling trail west, Grace Martindale loses her new husband and her last vestige of security. Upon arriving in Oregon Country, she uses her midwifery skills to help the other settlers, and—with the aid of fur trapper Alex Armistead—the Cayuse tribe. But peace between the groups is fragile, and tension soon leads to violence.
5) Beloved hope
Author
Series
Heart of the frontier volume 2
Language
English
Description
Hope Flanagan survived the massacre at the Whitman Mission, but at a terrible cost. Safe now, her mind and soul are healing. However, this peace is shattered when she is asked to testify at the trial of those responsible. As she confronts the pain of her past, an army lieutenant brings a ray of light into her life. But can she trust him with the truth?
Author
Series
Daughters of blessing volume 4
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Romance on the frontier from a bestselling author; the story of a woman who must learn to overcome her fears in order to love again.
Author
Series
Daughters of blessing volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Romance and drama on the northern prairie at the turn of the century from bestselling author Lauraine Snelling.
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Laura has her first experiences as a teacher, and is courted by Almanzo Wilder.
10) The long winter
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Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
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.
11) Farmer boy
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nine-year-old Almanzo lives with his family on a big farm in New York State at the end of the nineteenth century. He raises his own two calves, helps cut ice and shear sheep, and longs for the day he can have his own colt.
12) Spring Water
Author
Series
Springwater seasons volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Author
Series
Return to Red River volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
New look for bestselling account of life in the newly settled Dakota Territory in the 1890's as a new generation struggles to achieve their dreams.
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.
16) Caddie Woodlawn
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.
18) Bendigo Shafter
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c1979
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Author
Series
Red River of the North volume 4
Language
English
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Description
After transforming the harsh landscape into bountiful farmland, Ingeborg must decide whether the land has become more important than her own family.
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Series
High Sierra sweethearts volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Trace Riley takes in Deborah Harkness and the handful of other survivors of an attack on their wagon train, his simple existence is fundamentally altered as they work together to make it through the winter.
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