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1) Skylark
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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.
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Pub. Date
2007
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Without rain or topsoil, Anna Mae Phipps and her husband Harley struggle to provide for their two young children on their family farm. With another baby on the way, Harley sells his mules and travels a hundred miles to earn money building an elaborate WPA monument. But after only receiving Harley's first paycheck, Anna Mae grows increasingly desperate as months drag on without even a word from her husband.
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The gripping story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers and cast a shadow on the promise of the American frontier. January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the weather so mild that children walked to school without coats and gloves. But that afternoon, without warning, the atmosphere suddenly, violently changed. One moment the air was calm; the next...
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
A group of almost two dozen land managers, landowners, state and federal agency representatives, and scientists came together to develop a scientific/technical assessment of the conservation needs for the Central Shortgrass Prairie ecoregion. The Central Shortgrass Prairie ecoregion encompasses approximately 56 million acres and stretches across all of eastern Colorado, portions of southeastern Wyoming, western Kansas and Nebraska, the Panhandles...
12) Kindred souls
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Ten year-old Jake shares a special bond with his grandfather, Billy, but when Billy asks Jake to build him a sod house, Jake is not sure he wants to do it.
13) Prairie days
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes summer days growing up on the prairie.
15) Prairies
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Simple text and photographs introduce beginning readers to the physical characteristics of prairies.
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A landmark in environmental literature, this is the book that kindled today's interest in the preservation of original American prairie. Madson enlarges his account of prairie restorations and brings the book up to date with a directory of representative tallgrass prairies and lists of prairie nurseries and seed sources.
18) Prairie school
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In 1880, Noah's aunt teaches the reluctant nine-year-old how to read as they explore the Colorado prairie together, Noah pushing Aunt Dora in her wheelchair.
19) Forever our home
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Under glowing morning sun and silvery winter moon, from speckled frogs croaking in spring to summer fields painted with fireweed, this meditative lullaby introduces little ones to the plants and animals of the Prairies and the Plains"--
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Series
Prairie Heritage volume 1
Pub. Date
2012, 1988.
Description
Rose Brownlee has lost more than most can endure. Now she must find a way to move on with her life. Will she bow to conventional wisdom or will she, like Abraham of old, choose to follow where God leads her ... even to a wild and strange land she does not know? Set in the American prairie of the late 1800s, this story of loss, disillusionment, rebirth, and love will inspire, challenge, and encourage you.