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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
440L
Language
English
Description
Meg records in her diary the events from July to November of 1856, when her family is reunited and must face challenges from fires to pro-slavery border ruffians who are trying to take over Kansas Territory.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 2
Little House book volume 03
Harper trophy bk
Little house books volume 3
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Little House book volume 03
Harper trophy bk
Little house books volume 3
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The adventures continue for Laura Ingalls and her family as they leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and set out for Kansas. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the best spot to build their little house on the prairie. Soon they are planting and plowing, hunting wild ducks and turkeys, and gathering grass for their cows. Sometimes pioneer life is hard, but Laura and her folks are always busy and happy...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Plain, independent Lidie Harkness, impatient with the restrictions placed on women in mid-nineteenth century Illinois, jumps at the chance to marry New England abolitionist Thomas Newton and travel with him to the Kansas Territory where they embark on a dangerous quest to stop the spread of slavery.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pearl Eddy, a young, blind, Quaker widow in a small 1890s Kansas town, who is struggling to care for her four sons and make ends meet, infuriates her narrow-minded neighbors when she takes in a poor Japanese family who has lost their land to taxes and an African-American thief who is fleeing a mob.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Nineteen-year-old Aldine McKenna is stuck at home with her sister and aunt in a Scottish village in 1929 when two Mormon missionaries ring the doorbell. Aldine's sister converts and moves to America to marry, and Aldine follows, hoping to find the life she's meant to lead and the person she's meant to love. In New York, Aldine answers an ad soliciting a teacher for a one-room schoolhouse in a place she can't possibly imagine: drought-stricken Kansas....
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