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1) May B
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English
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Cozy Winter Reads for Middle Grades
OBD National Poetry Month (April) - YOUTH
Winter at Blackhawk
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OBD National Poetry Month (April) - YOUTH
Winter at Blackhawk
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When a failed wheat crop nearly bankrupts the Betterly family, Pa pulls twelve-year-old May from school and hires her out to a couple new to the Kansas frontier.
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 23
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English
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When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn, " they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers and they experience the terror of a tornado.
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Series
Magic tree house volume 23
Language
Español
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Annie y Jack viajan a la década de 1870, en la casa del árbol. Al llegar, aterrizan sobre la pradera, cerca de una escuela que sólo tiene un aula. Allí conocen a la maestra, una joven adolescente, a unos niños muy simpáticos y a otro niño más grande, y peleón. ¡Pero lo más duro y aterrador todavía está por venir! ¡Un tornado!
When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn, " they gain an understanding...
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American Girl history mysteries volume 12
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English
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In 1878, twelve-year-old Ida Kate and her widowed father welcome a mail-order bride and her baby to their Kansas homestead, but Ida Kate soon suspects that the bride is not the woman with whom Papa has corresponded.
6) Wagon wheels
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English
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Shortly after the Civil War a black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act.
The Muldie boys and their father have come a long way to Kansas to look for land. They build a dugout house, live through a hard winter and are saved from starvation by a band of Osage Indians. Spring comes, and Daddy moves to find a better home for them. The three brothers are left to fend for themselves, and when at...
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Little house chapter books. Laura volume 8
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English
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Laura and her pioneer family struggle against hardships on the Kansas frontier, including a prairie fire, a grasshopper invasion, and a blizzard.
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English
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Orphaned by their mother's death, two Irish Catholic sisters find a home with a kind Protestant couple on the Kansas frontier, but their new life is suddenly threatened by the appearance of their uncle, who is determined to take them back to New York and their "true" religion.
11) One sky above us
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Adventures of young Buffalo Bill volume 2
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English
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.