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Summary: In this novel authorized by Little House Heritage Trust, Sarah Miller vividly recreates the beauty, hardship, and joys of the frontier in a dazzling work of historical fiction, a captivating story that illuminates one courageous, resilient, and loving pioneer woman as never before--Caroline Ingalls, "Ma" in Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved Little House books. In the frigid days of February, 1870,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Miller 2017Erdrich, Louise.
Summary: In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ERDCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Erdrich 2012Miller, Sarah Elizabeth
Summary: In the frigid days of February, 1870, Caroline Ingalls, her husband Charles, and their little girls, Mary and Laura, leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and head west to settle in a beautiful, unpredictable land full of promise and peril--the Kansas Indian Territory. The pioneer life is a hard one, especially for a pregnant woman with no friends or kin to turn to for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MILWilder, Laura Ingalls
Summary: A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1953
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Wilder 1953Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WILErdrich, Louise
Summary: Living with their Ojibwe family on the Great Plains of Dakota Territory in 1866, twin brothers Makoons and Chickadee must learn to become buffalo hunters, but Makoons has a vision that foretells great challenges that his family may not be able to overcome.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ERDWilder, Laura Ingalls
Summary: Pa Ingalls decides to sell the little log house, and the family sets out for Indian country! They travel from Wisconsin to Kansas, and there, finally, Pa builds their little house on the prairie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Children's Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction WilCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD WILMarshall, Joseph
Summary: Teased for his fair coloring, eleven-year-old Jimmy McClean travels with his maternal grandfather, Nyles High Eagle, to learn about his Lakota heritage while visiting places significant in the life of Crazy Horse, the nineteenth-century Lakota leader andwarrior, in a tale that weaves the past with the present. Includes historical note and glossary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MARMacLachlan, Patricia.
Summary: Sequel to: Sarah, Plain and Tall. Skylark.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MACWilder, Laura Ingalls
Summary: Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperChildrensAudio 2004
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Summary: The third book in Laura Ingalls Wilder's treasured Little House series. The adventures continue for Laura Ingalls and her family as they leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and set out for the big skies of the Kansas Territory. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the best spot to build their house. Soon they are planting and plowing, hunting wild...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1992
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COLStorm, Hyemeyohsts
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1972
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1997
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1 available in Adult, Call number: WESTERN ColdsmithPaulsen, Gary.
Summary: In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD PAUMacLachlan, Patricia.
Summary: Sequel to: Skylark.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Joanna Cotler Books 2001
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MACWilder, Laura Ingalls
Summary: A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.6 FIC WILOlmstead, Robert
Summary: "A bankrupt widow embarks on a buffalo hunt in 1873 to try to save her late husband's land, and encounters multiple dangers along the way"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OLMOsborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: The magic tree house takes Jack and his sister Annie to the Great Plains where they learn about the life of the Lakota Indians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1999
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE OSBHannah, Kristin
Summary: Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods. The crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. In this uncertain and dangerous time, Elsa Martinelli, like so many of her neighbors, must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or go west, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HANNelson, S. D.
Summary: Clara spends her summer visiting her grandma and cousin on Standing Rock reservation, where Clara and her family set up the ancestral tipi and grow closer together as they tell stories, sing songs, and learn about their Lakota roots.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NELEnger, Lin
Summary: Abandoned by her husband and her two sons who went out to search for him, Gretta Pope must follow her family across the rugged badlands of 1880s Montana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENGPaulsen, Gary.
Summary: In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1994