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1) Old Yeller
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country ranks high in the annals of boy and dogdom. Gipson, in earlier books, has evinced an evocative quality which recaptures for the reader the sounds, the smells, the sights of the region he knows and loves, recaptures too the emotional quality, the moods of his central figure. This was particularly true in Hound-Dog Man, which for some readers was marred by the vernacular. In Old Yeller the story...
Author
Series
Little house chapter books. Laura volume 3
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
Laura Ingalls and her pioneer family encounter a variety of animals traveling through and living on the American frontier at the turn of the century.
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., col. map ; 29 cm.
Description
In the mid-nineteenth century, as young Katie and her father help plant and tend trees in their booming frontier town, she doubts that the spindly saplings will ever grow big. Includes facts about Arbor Day.
5) Going West
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
Description
Follows a family's emigration by prairie schooner from the East, across the plains to Kansas.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
204 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
While traveling in 1883 with her Italian American family (including a meddlesome little sister) and other immigrant pioneers to a utopian community in Idaho, fourteen-year-old Teresa keeps a diary of her experiences along the way.
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
Description
A grandfather tells how the family's Christmas tradition of placing a carved wooden nest with a pair of geese and their babies in the large spruce tree started years ago when his parents first settled in Colorado.
Author
Series
Little house chapter books. Laura volume 5
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
102 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
Laura tries to get even with Nellie, the meanest girl in school.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Remembering her mother's words, an eight-year-old girl finds courage to go alone with her father to build a new home in the Connecticut wilderness and to stay with the Indians when her father goes back to bring the rest of the family.
12) Thirteenth child
Author
Series
Frontier magic volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
344 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Eighteen-year-old Eff must finally get over believing she is bad luck and accept that her special training in Aphrikan magic, and being the twin of the seventh son of a seventh son, give her extraordinary power to combat magical creatures that threaten settlements on the western frontier.
Author
Series
Little house chapter books. Laura volume 12
Pub. Date
©1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
73 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
Stories about Laura's father and life on the frontier.
Author
Pub. Date
[1994]
Physical Desc
89 pages : color illustrations, music ; 26 cm
Description
A collection of stories which describe the experiences of a pioneer girl and her family as they celebrate various Christmases In the Big Woods in Wisconsin, on the prairie in Indian Territory, and On the banks of Plum Creek.
15) Hattie Big Sky
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
For years, sixteen-year-old Hattie's been shuttled between relatives. Tired of being Hattie Here-and-There, she courageously leaves Iowa to prove up on her late uncle's homestead claim near Vida, Montana. With a stubborn stick-to-itiveness, Hattie faces frost, drought and blizzards. Despite many hardships, Hattie forges ahead, sharing her adventures with her friends--especially Charlie, fighting in France--through letters and articles for her hometown...
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