Washoe County Library System

A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors.

Pa Ingalls builds a clean new house made of sawed lumber beside Plum Creek. The money for materials will come from their first wheat crop, until millions of grasshoppers cover the field and ruin the crop.

Laura has her first experiences as a teacher, and is courted by Almanzo Wilder.

When John Hale's parents moved from Chicago to a farm in the Dakota Territory in the late 1880s, he was not happy (too hot in summer, too cold in winter, and that is just the beginning); but after a year, and now eleven, he has settled in and made some friends at school--but when a sunny day in January 1888 turns abruptly into a deadly blizzard he will need all his strength and courage to survive what became known to history as The Children's Blizzard....

When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.

Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.

A little girl and her pioneer family spend a summer in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

When Betsy learns that a new family is coming to the Nebraska prairie, she hopes they have a girl who will be her friend.

A young tomboy joins her mischievous brothers in a series of frontier adventures causing their pioneer parents much concern.

Retells the wandering of John Chapman whose devotion to planting apple trees made him a legendary figure in American history.