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Allied Forces. Supreme Headquarters. Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section History Families Families Juvenile fiction Family life Fiction Family life Wisconsin Fiction Frontier and pioneer life Wisconsin Fiction Humorous stories Wisconsin Wisconsin Fiction Wisconsin Juvenile fictionSummary: Eccentricity defines daily life in Rome, Wisconsin, where the Tin Man from "The wizard of Oz" is murdered, a student brings a severed hand to school for show-and-tell, and a woman runs over her husband with a steam roller pleading "not guilty by reason of menopause." Sheriff Jimmy Brock has seen it all. Indeed, behind the tidy picket fences of this quirky little town lie all the same problems...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PICWilkes, Maria D.
Summary: An abridged version of the story of young Caroline Quiner, who would grow up to become Laura Ingalls Wilder's mother, and her family surviving their first year without Father in the frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A young pioneer girl and her family attend a wintertime party at her grandparents' house in the big woods of Wisconsin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Wilder 1994Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WILWilder, Laura Ingalls
Summary: A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A little pioneer girl and her family, living in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, make their first trip into town to visit the general store.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1995
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WILHenkes, Kevin
Summary: Seven-year-old Billy Miller starts second grade with a bump on his head and a lot of worries, but by the end of the year he has developed good relationships with his teacher, his little sister, and his parents and learned many important lessons.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Salazar, Alicia
Summary: Camila and her Papa enter a televised baking competition, but trying to do everything herself results in a mess so Papa helps to bake strawberry-iced cake pops that could make them sta
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Summary: A little girl and her pioneer family spend a summer in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WilderWilder, Laura Ingalls
Summary: A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Children's Audio 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: J CD WILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD WILAtkinson, Elizabeth
Summary: Growing up near Boston with her free-spirited mother and old-world grandfather, twelve-year-old Emma has always felt out of place but when she attends the family reunion her father's family holds annually in Wisconsin, she is in for some surprises.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction Atkinson 2010Atkinson, Elizabeth.
Summary: Growing up near Boston with her free-spirited mother and old-world grandfather, twelve-year-old Emma has always felt out of place but when she attends the family reunion her father's family holds annually in Wisconsin, she is in for some surprises.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in JT Audio Books, Call number: JT CD Fiction AtkinsonZimmermann, Laura
Summary: Stuck at the lake in the middle of a Wisconsin winter, Drew and her younger sister and brother struggle to stay together after their manipulative, con artist mother dies, which they can only do if they can keep her death a secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZIMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZIMDeKeyser, Stacy
Summary: In 1948, Nikko Spirakis, twelve, loves baseball but must get past his hard-working immigrant parents--and the rhino in the outfield--to become a batboy for the local minor league team.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DEKHannigan, Katherine.
Summary: In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her mother begins treatment for breast cancer and her parents must sell part of the orchard and send her to public school.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HANNIHenkes, Kevin
Summary: "On his eighth birthday, Billy Miller wishes for something exciting to happen. None of his wishes are answered the way he expects, but he does have lots of surprises--and the final one is possibly the best one ever"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HENHouston, Victoria
Summary: It's Lew Ferris's first day as the newly-elected Sheriff of McBride County, and already things are heating up in the Wisconsin Northwoods. The tragic drowning of a teenage girl draws an eerie parallel to the unsolved murder of another teen thirty years earlier, but one of Lew's new subordinates-- Alan Stern, Chief of the Deer Haven Police Department-- has ruled it an accidental death by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Treuer, Anton
Summary: Today's Ojibwe people have maintained a dazzling array of deep, beautiful, adaptive ways of connecting to the spiritual, natural, and human beings around them. Variations in Ojibwe cultural practices are, of course, as diverse as their homelands, which stretch across the Great Lakes, Canadian shield, pine forests, and prairie potholes of four US states and three Canadian provinces. And Ojibwe...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minnesota Historical Society Press 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.897 TREWilder, Laura Ingalls
Summary: A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions with relatives and neighbors.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1991
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WILCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION WilCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction Series Wilder 1953Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WILHenkes, Kevin.
Summary: Seven-year-old Billy Miller starts second grade with a bump on his head and a lot of worries, but by the end of the year he has developed good relationships with his teacher, his little sister, and his parents and learned many important lessons.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Children's Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HENReichert, Amy E.
Summary: Luck, Love & Lemon Pie delves into the complexities of marriage and what we're willing to do for the ones we love. When MJ Boudreaux notices her husband, Chris, seems more interested in the casino than her, she's bothered that she isn't more upset. She picks up poker as a way for them to spend more time together--and reignite their marital flame. Although the game doesn't give her the quality...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC REIBunge, Nancy L.
Contents: Preparation for the journey -- The reality of mission life -- Building a home alone in the forest -- Standing with the Ojibwe against removal and smallpox -- Struggling against sickness -- Harriet's children -- Life without a mission.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 BUNKhan, Hena
Summary: When aspiring artist Deena's anxiety reaches a breaking point, both she and her mother learn the importance of asking for help, and that, with the right support, she can create something truly beautiful.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KHAWilder, Laura Ingalls
Summary: A collection of six stories recounts the adventures of young Laura and Almanzo and their families as they settle into a new house, visit town, go to the county fair, make maple candy, enjoy a winter day, and celebrate Christmas.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017