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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Pa Ingalls decides to sell the old house, and the family sets out for Indian Country! They travel from Wisconson to Kansas and there, finally, Pa builds their little house on the prairie. Sometimes farm life is difficult, even dangerous, but Laura and the family are kept busy and are happy with the promise of their new life on the prairie.
Author
Series
Prairie River volume 2
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Nessa can't remember a home other than the orphange, and now she has no choice but to leave. Her plan is to escape on the next stagecoach west--one headed toward Prairie River, Kansas, a town in the middle of nowhere ..."
3) Firebrand
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
In 1848 Vienna, fifteen-year-old August Bondi is forced to emigrate to America, leaving behind his comrades in the revolution. In his new country he is confronted by the evil of slavery, and sets out for Bleeding Kansas to join forces with the notorious John Brown.
5) Fig
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Love and sacrifice intertwine in this brilliant and provocative debut of rare beauty about a girl dealing with her mother's schizophrenia and her own mental illness. Fig's world lies somewhere between reality and fantasy. But as she watches Mama slowly come undone, it becomes hard to tell what is real and what is not, what is fun and what is frightening. To save Mama, Fig begins a fierce battle to bring her back. She knows that her daily sacrifices,...
Author
Series
Adventures of young Buffalo Bill volume 1
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
After the death of his brother, eight-year-old Bill Cody and his family set out from Iowa to make a new home for themselves in the volatile Kansas Territory.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Meg continues to write in her diary about her family's adventures in the Kansas prairie in 1856 as they try to return to a more normal life after surviving a cholera epidemic, separation, and invading Border Ruffians.
Author
Series
Adventures of young Buffalo Bill volume 2
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Having settled on the Kansas frontier, young Bill Cody and his family try to make a home for themselves, coexist with their Kickapoo neighbors, and stand up as abolitionists in spite of their neighbors' pro-slavery beliefs.
Author
Series
Adventures of young Buffalo Bill volume 3
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
With the threat of further violence from pro-slavery border ruffians ever-present, nine-year-old Bill must run the farm, even after his father comes home to recuperate from his knife wound, and go to school.