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"In 1910, Signe, her husband, and their boys emigrate from Norway to Minnesota, dreaming of one day owning a farm of their own. But the relatives they've come to stay with are harsh and demanding. As Signe's family is worked to the bone to repay the cost of their voyage, can she learn to trust God through this trial and hold on to hope for a better future?"--
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"Nilda Carlson has been trying to save enough money to go to America for months, so when a letter from Einar and Gerd Strand arrives, offering to pay her ticket, she jumps at the chance. Her younger brother Ivar accompanies her, and they can't wait to join their brother Rune and his family in the northern forests of Minnesota. Signe and Rune Carlson are thrilled to welcome Nilda and Ivar to America, but life on the farm remains a struggle. Though...
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" In 1910 Minnesota, Nilda Carlson's dreams are coming true. Though her first few months in America were difficult, her life now resembles the images that filled her daydreams in Norway. She and her younger brother Ivar live in their own house, just a short distance from her older brother and his family. Together they work the farm and fell trees for lumber. They plan to grow a dairy herd, weave rugs out of their own wool, and make skis to sell. Everything...
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Red River of the North volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Ingeborg, her husband Roald, and their son immigrate to America with high hopes in 1880. When New York doesn't measure up to their expectations, they continue westward until reaching the Dakota territory. The family must struggle to achieve their dream.
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English
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Two brothers work a rich and bountiful land--and one extraordinary woman shares their lives. To Jonathan Gray, Mary is a devoted and giving mate. To Aaron, she is a beloved friend. But seven childless years of marriage have forced Jonathan to ask the unthinkable of his brother and his wife--binding the two people he cares for most with an act of desire born of compassion ... awakening Mary to the pain of infidelity, and to all the bittersweet joy...
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The gentle hills volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Jerry Macmillan has returned on leave from the war, but doesn't know if he will receive the special discharge he requested. If he doesn't get it, his ailing father will lose the farm, and his wife and daughter will have no place to go.
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The gentle hills volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
950L
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English
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Carley recalls the extraordinary summer when, as a troubled fourteen-year-old, he first came to northern Minnesota to stay with his blacksmith Uncle David and gained not only new skills but also a new sense of himself.
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Aldo Zelnick comic novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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When they spend a week at their aunt and uncle's farm without any electronic entertainment, Aldo and his brother try to find other ways to occupy themselves while dealing with their twin cousins, in a book featuring vocabulary starting with C.
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Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
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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.
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2015.
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English
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"[Emmaline] Nelson and her sister Birdie grow up in the hard, cold, rural, Lutheran world of strict parents, strict milking times, and strict morals. Marriage is preordained, the groom practically predestined. Though it's 1958, southern Minnesota did not see changing roles for women on the horizon. Caught in a time bubble between a world war and the ferment of the 1960s, Emmy doesn't see that she has any say in her life, any choices at all. Only when...
15) Bend in the road
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Seventeen-year-old Gabe's life is a mess. His debut album-produced by his rock star dad--made him an overnight sensation, but his second album tanked, he just got dumped by his on-again, off-again girlfriend, and he's desperate to come up with the money he needs to fix a major screwup. The only place he can be free from the paparazzi and rumors is the family farm--the farm that seventeen-year-old Juniper's family has managed since before she was born....
17) Barn boot blues
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
When her parents swap urban life in Minneapolis for rural life on a farm 100 miles away, twelve-year-old Taylor feels as if she is living on another planet.
19) Farm team
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Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
700L
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English
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With his father in jail and his mother working full-time, fourteen-year-old Billy Baggs finds himself in charge of running the family farm in northern Minnesota and having to give up the thing he loves most--baseball.
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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After moving from Malone, New York, to Spring Valley, Minnesota, in the 1870s, fourteen-year-old Almanzo Wilder, who would grow up to become the husband of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and his family must decide whether to stay out west or return home to the life they have always known.
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