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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Deeply unhappy about the separation of her family because of poverty, twelve-year-old Megan gradually finds contentment and purpose in her new home on the Kansas prairie with a kind and loving adopted family.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
3) Wagon wheels
Author
Series
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
Series
Little house chapter books. Laura volume 8
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Laura and her pioneer family struggle against hardships on the Kansas frontier, including a prairie fire, a grasshopper invasion, and a blizzard.
6) Jim-Dandy
Author
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Living after the Civil War on a Kansas homestead with his stern stepfather, thirteen-year-old Caleb raises a beloved colt and becomes involved in General Custer's raids on the Cheyenne.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 23
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Meg records in her diary the events from July to November of 1856, when her family is reunited and must face challenges from fires to pro-slavery border ruffians who are trying to take over Kansas Territory.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
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) Grasslands
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
In the 1880s, thirteen-year-old Thomas moves west from the aristocratic Virginia home of his grandparents to a poor Kansas farm to live with a father he barely remembers and his new stepfamily.
12) One sky above us
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
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.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
With the threat of further violence from pro-slavery border ruffians ever-present, nine-year-old Bill must run the farm, even after his father comes home to recuperate from his knife wound, and go to school.