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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mothers give birth in the borning room. The dying take their departure there. Outside the Lott family's Ohio farmhouse, the Civil War rages, slavery falls, and the world marvels at the wonder of electricity. Inside, within the walls of the borning room, Georgina Lott will experience her life's greatest turnings. Across the years, she discovers womanhood and first love, experiences the mourning that comes with loss, and, as did her mother and grandmother,...
2) Swamp Angel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Caldecott honor book: 1995.
5) Bluestem
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
With their father away and their mother traumatized by some unknown event, eleven-year-old Polly and her younger sister are left to take care of themselves and their prairie homestead.
7) Wagon wheels
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shortly after the Civil War a black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act.
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Only twelve-year-old Colleen knows that her baby sister died just after she was born and that Colleen put another baby in her place, until the baby's father shows up and makes trouble for her and her family on the South Dakota prairie in the 1860s.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[c1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
While traveling in 1883 with her Italian American family (including a meddlesome little sister) and other immigrant pioneers to a utopian community in Idaho, fourteen-year-old Teresa keeps a diary of her experiences along the way.
13) Aggie's home
Author
Publisher
A Yearling Book
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A clumsy and unattractive twelve-year-old, Aggie is sure no one will want to adopt her when she rides the orphan train out west, but when she meets the eccentric Bradon family she begins to have some hope. Includes historical information about orphan trains and the woman's suffrage movement.
14) Land of the buffalo bones: the diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, an English girl in Minnesota
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Polly Rodgers keeps a diary of her 1873 journey from England to Minnesota as part of a colony of eighty people seeking religious freedom, and of their first year struggling to make a life there, led by her father, a Baptist minister.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Newbery honor book: 1955.
An eight-year-old girl finds courage to go alone with her father to build a new home in the Connecticut wilderness, and to stay with the Indians when her father goes back to bring the rest of the family.
Author
Series
Little House novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
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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