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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 2
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English
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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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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 5
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English
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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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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 6
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English
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After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 9
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English
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During their first four years of marriage, Laura and Almanzo Wilder have a child and fight a losing battle in their attempts to succeed at farming on the South Dakota prairie.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 8
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English
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Laura has her first experiences as a teacher, and is courted by Almanzo Wilder.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 1
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English
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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.
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"The Last of the Mohicans," penned by the literary maestro James Fenimore Cooper, is a tour de force that beckons readers into the heart of the untamed American wilderness. Published in 1826, this timeless novel unfolds against the backdrop of the French and Indian War, a tumultuous period that serves as the canvas for Cooper's masterpiece.
In the vast expanse of the North American frontier, where verdant forests echo with the whispers of ancient...
8) Washday
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English
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One sunny Saturday in 1889, Lizzie helps her grandmother scrub, boil, rinse, and hang loads of laundry, although she would rather be having a tea party with her best friend, Lucy, and their dolls, Amelia Cordelia and Belinda Lavinia.
9) Swamp Angel
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English
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Along with other amazing feats, Angelica Longrider, also known as Swamp Angel, wrestles a huge bear, known as Thundering Tarnation, to save the winter supplies of the settlers in Tennessee.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 7
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English
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At fifteen, Laura earns her teacher's certificate, gets a job, and starts going to parties.
Pa's homestead thrives, Laura gets her first job in town, blackbirds eat the corn and oats crops, Mary goes to college, and Laura gets into trouble at school, but becomes a certified school teacher.
11) Caddie Woodlawn
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English
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Chronicles the adventures of eleven-year-old Caddie growing up with her six brothers and sisters on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.
14) One came home
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English
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In 1871 Wisconsin, thirteen-year-old Georgia sets out to find her sister Agatha, presumed dead when remains are found wearing the dress she was last seen in, and before the end of the year gains fame as a sharpshooter and foiler of counterfeiters.
15) Riding the flume
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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English
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In 1894, fifteen-year-old Francie determines to fight the lumbermen and protect the largest Sequoia tree ever seen, which had been given to her sister just before her death six years earlier.
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Oregon Trail volume 3
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English
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Continue west, young pioneer-the second leg of your journey starts here-and it won't be any easier. Natural disasters, disease, and dishonest people are challenges you'll face in the wild frontier. Now, trek on the Oregon Trail to?Devil's Gate!?This is the second installment of four books that will take you all the way to Oregon Territory-if you make the right choices. In book two of this?exciting choose-your-own-adventure?series, it's 1850 and...
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Oregon Trail volume 5
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English
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In this?exciting?choose-your-own-trail stand-alone experience featuring 8-bit art, it's 1849 and you are at the halfway point on your journey?west on the Oregon Trail. When a powerful storm separates you from your family, you must use all of your smarts to?survive on your own. Along the way, you meet a twelve-year-old?girl?from the Shoshone Nation, who has the grit and smarts to help you both make it to Oregon Territory. Which path will get you safely...
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English
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The New Land is the story of a 19th-century European immigrant family's first year of homesteading on the prairie. Mother, Father, John and little Annie travel across the Atlantic by steamship and then the country by train and ox cart to the prairies where they build a sod house and prepare for their first winter. In the Spring, they plant their first fields and rejoice in the prairie flowers and the flight of geese and meadowlarks. Recommended reading...
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Oregon Trail volume 8
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English
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Plot your on adventure while traveling on the Oregon Trail.
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Oregon Trail volume 2
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English
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Continue west, young pioneer-the second leg of your journey starts here-and it won't be any easier. Natural disasters, disease, and dishonest people are challenges you'll face in the wild frontier. Now, trek on the Oregon Trail to?Devil's Gate!?This is the second installment of four books that will take you all the way to Oregon Territory-if you make the right choices. In book two of this?exciting choose-your-own-adventure?series, it's 1850 and...
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