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Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 23
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
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
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
Just when twelve-year-old Summer thinks nothing else can possibly go wrong in a year of bad luck, an emergency takes her parents to Japan, leaving Summer to care for her little brother while helping her grandmother cook and do laundry for harvest workers.
Author
Series
100 cupboards volume 1
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his parents are kidnapped, timid twelve-year-old Henry York leaves his sheltered Boston life and moves to small-town Kansas, where he and his cousin Henrietta discover and explore hidden doors in his attic room that seem to open onto other worlds.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When her family moves to the Kansas Territory in 1855, thirteen-year-old poet Lucy Thomkins searches for her purpose in life, while she witnesses the conflict between the proslavery Border Ruffians and the anti-slavery Insiders like her father.
10) Fallout
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
V.I. Warshawski travels to Kansas to investigate the disappearances of a young film student and a faded Hollywood star, but long-simmering racial tensions stir up more mysteries as the body count rises.
12) Wagon wheels
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1993.
Edition
Newly ill. edition.
Language
English
Description
Shortly after the Civil War a black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act.
14) Anna was here
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
Three generations of the Nickel family reunite when fourth-grader Anna, her Mom and Dad, and four-year-old sister Isabella relocate to Oakwood, Kansas.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 105
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The Aldens try to solve a series of mysteries which took place in an old hotel in Kansas that they visit.
17) Steal away home
Author
Language
English
Description
In two parallel stories, a Quaker family in Kansas in the late 1850s operates a station on the Underground Railroad, while almost 150 years later twelve-year-old Dana moves into the same house and finds the skeleton of a black woman who helped the Quakers.
Author
Series
100 cupboards volume 3
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Henry York, finally reunited with his family, works with them and the Chestnut King, the long-deposed and mythic leader of the faeren people, to destroy Nimiane and her forces of evil.
20) Dandelion fire
Author
Series
100 cupboards volume 2
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Presents the continuing adventures of Henry York, who has been living in Kansas with his cousins, where he discovers doorways leading to other worlds and becomes involved in a multi-world struggle between good and evil.
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