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Series
Orphan Train adventures volume 3
Pub. Date
1996,c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Deeply unhappy about her family's separation because of poverty, Megan gradually finds contentment and purpose in her new home on the Kansas prairie with a kind and loving adopted family.
85) Beyond the ridge
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
At her death an elderly Plains Indian woman experiences the afterlife believed in by her people, while the surviving family members prepare her body according to their customs.
Author
Pub. Date
[1970]
Description
This vivid documentary of one of the most shameful episodes in American History, Stephen Longstreet shows just how different the two cultures were and how hard the Indian was willing to fight to preserve his own way of life. With detailed accounts of such famous encounters as the Sioux Uprising at New Ulm, the Battle of Wounded Knee, the Fetterman and Sand Creek Massacres, Custer and the Little Big Horn, the Battle of the Lava Beds, and all the other...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996
Description
In the Wyoming wild, Blackfoot warriors prepare for battle, their bloodlust stirred by a legendary prophet promising victory in a war that will forever rid the plains of the white man. To legendary mountain man Preacher, it isn't a promise - it's a threat. But being out-numbered in a savage frontier means justice will be as hard-earned and uncertain.
Author
Series
Spanish bit saga volume 24
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
A youth in a tribe of Plains Indians gives up a girlfriend to serve as a holy man's pipe bearer, first step in becoming a holy man himself. The novel follows his training in communicating with spirits and in preserving tribal legends and culture. By the author of Child of the Dead.
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"On January 12, 1888, a surprise blizzard broke out in the middle of the day across the Midwest. In its path, hundreds of children and teachers found themselves stranded inside schoolhouses with no food, no heat, and very few options. Days passed, and over 235 people died as result of the harsh snow of the Schoolhouse Blizzard, but many were able to survive thanks to the bravery of others in their communities. Learn all about the disastrous weather...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"In the frigid days of February, 1870, Caroline Ingalls, her husband Charles, and their little girls, Mary and Laura, leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and head west to settle in a beautiful, unpredictable land full of promise and peril--the Kansas Indian Territory. The pioneer life is a hard one, especially for a pregnant woman with no friends or kin to turn to for comfort or help. The burden of work must be shouldered alone,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"In the mid-1800s seventy-five million buffalo roamed in North America. In little more than fifty years, there would be almost none." The death of the buffalo and the settlers' farming and ranching practices endangered the prairie, as drought made the farmland crumble to dust. To help repair the land, the buffalo had to be saved.
Author
Series
La casa del árbol volume 18
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Annie y Jack viajan 200 años atrás en la casa del árbol, junto a Teddy, el perro encantado, a las Grandes Llanuras. Allí se encuentran con un niño de la tribu Lakota, que les enseña a cazar bœfalos. Pero, de pronto... ¡algo sale mal! Y una gigante manada de bœfalos se prepara para una estampida. ¿Podrán deternerlos?
The magic tree house takes Jack and his sister Annie to the Great Plains where they learn about the life of the Lakota Indians....
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