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Dakota Territory Fiction Frontier and pioneer life Fiction Mexican Americans Fiction Mexican Americans Juvenile fiction Mexicans United States Fiction North Dakota Fiction Norwegian Americans Fiction Red River of the North Fiction United States History 20th century Fiction United States History 20th century Juvenile fictionGilbert, Julie
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Maddy Rollag struggles with prairie life on her aunt and uncle's farm in Dakota Territory, but on January 12, 1888, when a blizzard threatens to trap Maddy and her classmates inside their damaged schoolhouse, she finds the courage and strength to lead them to safety. Includes historical note, glossary, and discussion questions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GILPaulsen, Gary
Summary: A young boy growing up on a northern Minnesota farm describes the scenes around him and recounts his old Norwegian uncle's tales of an almost mythological logging past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 1989
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Summary: "Each member of Erik Sheepflattener's modern-day Viking-heritage family has a motto to live by. Erik is developing a motto he can truly believe in : AVOID STUFF. But when he and his older sister Brunhilde spend the summer with their rough-and-tumble cousins in Minnesota, axe-wielding Bru gets the idea to name and conquer all of Erik's fears."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Snelling, Lauraine.
Contents: Dakota dawn -- Dakota dream -- Dakota dusk -- Dakota destiny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barbour Pub. 1996
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Summary: It had taken four long, difficult years to tame the virgin prairie of Dakota Territory , Looking back through all the heartache and the body- breaking labor , Ingeborg Bjorkland knew that God had been with them every step of the way. Dreams that had turned into veritable nightmares had been reshaped with the promise of a new day rising , and her marriage to haaken had been its sure sign.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 1997
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SnellBergren, Lisa Tawn.
Summary: The sagas of Kaatje, Elsa, Tora and Karl continue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook Press 2000
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Summary: Life in Blessing, North Dakota, becomes difficult when courageous and gentle Grace Knutson is presented with an agonizing dilema.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2008
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Summary: In the Dakota Territory of 1883 Ingeborg Bjorklund's husband disappears in a winter storm. In the spring her late husband's brother and cousin arrive to help her, and Ingeborg finds love again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Snelling 1996Snelling, Lauraine.
Summary: The fertile prairies of Dakota Territory have finally begun to yield the bountiful harvests the pioneers have dreamed about since leaving their homes in Norway. The tiny community of Blessing is beginning to expand and thrive, its hardy citizens at last enjoying a measure of prosperity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 1999
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Summary: Ever so slowly Dakota Territory is being transformed from a vast prairie into rich farmland. But for Ingeborg and Haakan, realizing their dreams will not come without a struggle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Pub 2007
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Summary: Hjelmer travels west to work on the railroad, but after sending only one letter to Penny, who has agreed to wait for him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2006
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Summary: Ever so slowly the Dakota Territory is being transformed from a vast prairie into rich farmlands. Finally the Bjorklund family and their neighbors are reaping the promised harvest that had drawn them from their homes in Norway to cross the Atlantic. Withthe coming of the railroad and shipments of wheat to larger markets, the small town of Blessing beings to prosper in 1886.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 1998
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2001
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Summary: The dream of their own farmstead and a good life in America had brought Roald and Ingeborg Bjorklund across the Alantic to pioneer the virgin prairie of Dakota Territory. But Roald's tragic disappearance in a winter storm had turned Ingeborg's dreams into a living nightmare. Against nearly impossible circumstance and overwhelming grief, she struggles to keep the farm and her family together....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook Press 2010
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Summary: Augusta Bjorklund, after discovering her intended bridegoom married someone else, decides to leave her broken heart in Norway and start a new life in America. But knowing no English, Augusta misunderstands a ticket agent's directions in St. Paul, Minnesota, and in the harried confusion, she boards the wrong train.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 1999
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Summary: Elsa Anders's dream of marrying Peder Ramstad is about to come true. But as this independent, strong-willed woman discovers her own creative gifts--a love for travel, painting, and the sea--can she find happiness with a captain who insists upon leaving her safely on shore? Leaving their home in Norway behind, Elsa and Peder embark on a new life in with their closest friends, including: Kaatje...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook Press 2009
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Summary: Nineteen-year-old Rebecca Baard has experienced more than her share of sorrow, and now she is afraid to open her heart to love. Rebecca's friends set out to remedy the situation, concocting social events to attract all the eligible bachelors in Blessing, and advising her in the use of her feminine wiles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2008
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Summary: Certain she can't live without Hamre Bjorklund, the impetuous Sophie Knutson rejects her father's request to postpone her marriage until after graduation and convinces Hamre to elope. But far from her family, Sophie finds that life as a fisherman's bride in Ballard, Washington, is not all she had envisioned. Pregnant and lonely while Hamre is away at sea, she hires on at a fish cannery, only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2007
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Summary: During World War II, while his father is in Europe fighting and his mother is working in Chicago, a five-year-old boy goes to live with his grandmother in a rural Norwegian American community in Minnesota. Based on events from the author's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Paulsen 2004Young, Carrie.
Contents: The wedding dress.--Bank night.--The skaters.--The nights of Ragna Rundhaug.--The sins of the fathers.--Blue horses.--Twilight and June.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Iowa Press 1992
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Place a hold to request this item.Sánchez, Erika L.
Summary: "Julia no es la hija mexicana perfecta. Ese era el rol de su hermana Olga. Olga no fue a la universidad, se quedó en casa para cuidar a sus padres, limpiar la casa y trabajar a medio tiempo. Julia tiene grandes sueños y no quiere formar parte del camino de su hermana mayor. Pero un solo error, que ocurre mientras enviaba un mensaje de texto al mismo tiempo que cruzaba la calle más concurrida de...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH SANMartinez, Claudia Guadalupe
Summary: En el primer libro infantil que describe el capítulo olvidado de la historia de los Estados Unidos conocido como la Repatriación Mexicana, un niño y su familia dejan su amado hogar para evitar ser separados por el gobierno. Ante la perspectiva de ser separados, un niño y su familia toman la difícil decisión de dejar su hogar y emprender un viaje lleno de incertidumbre. En el camino, se...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2022