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4) Skylark
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Arriving on the American prairie in the hope of making a new home, Nora, a little girl from Russia, struggles with loneliness until Papa brings her a dozen chicks and two geese who follow Nora everywhere she goes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Everyone on the wagon train knew Harriet "Duck" Scott was looking for adventure as they left Illinois for the faraway Oregon Territory, but nothing could haave prepared the Scott family for the dangers they were about to meet.
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1793, fifteen-year-old Eugenie de la Roque, her family, and other nobles barely escape the French Revolution and arrive in Pennsylvania, where homesick young Hannah Kimbrell, a Shaker, is among those charged with preparing New France for the aristocrats' arrival.
13) Calico bush
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1987.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1743, thirteen-year-old Marguerite Ledoux travels to Maine as the indentured servant of a family that regards her as little better than the Indians that threaten them, but her strength, quick thinking and courage surprise them all.
Left orphaned and alone shortly after her French family arrives in the New World, young Marguerite Ledoux becomes an indentured servant and must survive the dangers of hostile Indians, the bitter, hungry winter of 1743,...
14) Hattie Big Sky
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe. Alone in the world, teen-aged Hattie is driven to prove up on her uncle's homesteading claim. For years, sixteen-year-old Hattie's been shuttled between relatives. Tired of being Hattie Here-and-There, she courageously...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
The Ingalls family packs up their covered wagon and travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home in Kansas Territory, where wide open land stretches as far as the eye can see. On the prairie, they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.
A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie...
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