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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...

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...

"This prairie is like an enormous meadow, stretching far away in every direction, to the very edge of the world." Pa Ingalls has found a new job on a railroad out West and Laura and her family set out once again across the prairie. Silver Lake is bustling with people arriving to work on the land. Pa finds the perfect place to build a home and it seems as though the Ingalls' travelling days might be over. But will Pa get to the homestead before someone...

"I wouldn't let anything keep me from getting an education." School has reopened after a long winter and Laura Ingalls is studying hard for her teaching certificate. But being sensible all the time is so difficult, especially when her schoolmates keep trying to get her into trouble. As the school exhibition looms, will Laura be able to make a good impression and become a teacher at last?

"Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. Wilbur the pig wants to make a friend in the barn. Charlotte the spider wants a friend too! And with the words she makes in her web, she will make sure that everyone knows what a special pig Wilbur is"-- Provided by publisher.

A black family of five moves into an enormous house once used as a hiding place for runaway slaves. Mysterious sounds and events as well as the discovery of secret passageways make the family believe they are in grave danger.

Like the rest of his family, Louis is a trumpeter swan. But unlike his four brothers and sisters, Louis can't trumpet joyfully. In fact, he can't even make a sound. And since he can't trumpet his love, the beautiful swan Serena pays no attention to him. Louis tries everything he can think of to win Serena's affection - he even goes to school to learn to read and write. But nothing seems to work. Then his father steals him a real brass trumpet. Is...

Andrew wants freckles so badly that he buys Sharon's freckle recipe for fifty cents.

A twelve-year-old girl who knows little about her Chinese heritage is sent to live with her grandmother in San Francisco's Chinatown.

En route to Germany in search of the maternal love she never had, eighteen-year-old Patty Bergen lingers in Paris and experiences her first love affair. A sequel to "Summer of My German Soldier." (Reading Grade Level: 6 & up) (An Accelerated Reader title).