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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,...

Barbie's family sets up a backyard campsite to try living like pioneers, but when her mother needs to get an important project to work and there is too much traffic for her to get it there on time, the girls come up with a way to save the day. "A Step into Reading leveled reader based on the BarbieTM Dreamhouse Adventures animated series! Barbie and her sisters--Skipper, Stacie, and Chelsea--always have fun in the new animated comedy series BarbieTM...

"In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska"-- "1879, Mississippi. Young dreamer Lettie may have her head in the stars, but her body is on a covered wagon heading westward. Her father, Thomas, promises that Nebraska will be everything the family needs: an opportunity to claim the independence they’ve strived for over generations on their very own plot of land. But Thomas’...

A collection of stories describing the adventures Laura Ingalls Wilder and her sisters shared while growing up in frontier communities in the Middle West.

The reader counts the one house, two trees, three books, and other objects found in accounts of the frontier and pioneer life of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her family.