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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
The story of a pioneer woman who, as a bride, followed the covered-wagon trail to the Nebraska prairies and lived there the rest of her eighty years. A devoted wife and mother, Abbie Deal brought a large and united family through poverty and hardships often denying herself so the children might have the advantages her talented youth had coveted.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
"Born in 1867 in the "Big Woods" in Wisconsin, Laura experienced both the hardship and the adventure of living on the frontier. It wasn't until after she was sixty that Laura Ingalls Wilder started chronicling those times, which resulted in nine Little House books, a hit TV series that ran for eight years, and her own permanent place as a heroine of the American West"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Women played an essential role in the development of the West. Women of the American West takes a look at the daring, inventive, and determined women that helped shape the nation."--Publisher's website.
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"As the author of the popular Little House on the Prairie books, Laura Ingalls Wilder found fame by sharing her experiences growing up on the American frontier in the late 1800s. Her works became instant classics of childrens literature and a valued teaching tool for comprehending the obstacles facing settlers in that time, including malaria outbreaks, droughts and blizzards, and conflicts with Native Americans. This absorbing biographical account...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Many girls in elementary and middle school fall in love with the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. What they don't always realize is that Wilder's books are autobiographical. This narrative biography describes more of the details of the young Laura's real life as a young pioneer homesteading with her family on many adventurous journeys. This biography, complete with charming illustrations, points out the differences between the fictional...
11) Wild West women
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
Presents an account of frontier life for women in the American West through the brief biographies of several women, including Calamity Jane, Molly Brown, Belle Starr, Pearl Hart, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Annie Oakley
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