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Author
Series
Blackwater Ben adventures volume 1
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In the winter of 1898, a seventh-grade boy drops out of school to work with his father, the cook at Blackwater Logging Camp in Minnesota.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Fourteen-year-old Polly Rodgers keeps a diary of her 1873 journey from England to Minnesota as part of a colony of eighty people seeking religious freedom, and of their first year struggling to make a life there, led by her father, a Baptist minister.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Carl Erik, a recent immigrant from Sweden, becomes the man of the house when his father and uncle go to work in a logging camp, and he learns many things about life in Minnesota while attending school, doing his chores, and trying to put meat on the table.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Sacrificing dreams and risking family, five women follow their husbands to an isolated Minnesota settlement. Struggling to survive, they develop resilience but none are prepared for the challenges they face when starving bands of Santee Sioux (Dakota) take up arms against the whites during the 1862 Dakota Conflict. Laura Duley left Indiana as a newlywed. Promised a perfect life, she endured years on the hostile frontier and the loss of family only...
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