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3) Skylark
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Series
Language
English
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Description
When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The prairie grassland biome covers the heartland of North America with an eastward extension called the Prairie Peninsula. Primarily composed of tallgrass prairie, this biome lies between the shortgrass prairies of the west and the eastern deciduous forest region and includes the states of Illinois, Indiana, southeastern Wisconsin, and Ohio. With text by coauthors Gary Meszaros and Guy L. Denny and striking photographs by Meszaros, The Prairie Peninsula...
6) Elsie's bird
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Young Elsie must find a way to adapt to her new home on the Nebraska prairie after she and her father leave their comfortable city life in Boston.
10) Forever our home
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Under glowing morning sun and silvery winter moon, from speckled frogs croaking in spring to summer fields painted with fireweed, this meditative lullaby introduces little ones to the plants and animals of the Prairies and the Plains"--
11) Prairies
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to prairies. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
12) Prairie days
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
Describes summer days growing up on the prairie.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1910, four orphans leave their home in Wisconsin to "prove up" their claim to a parcel of land on the South Dakota prairie. Seventeen-year-old Becky Linville and her younger siblings -- Dick, Phil, and Joan -- hadn't intended to move to the newly opened Rosebud Reservation by themselves. But with their Uncle Jim's untimely death, the children are forced to follow up on the claim without adult supervision. Uncle Jim left detailed instructions...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
CBA best-selling author Kim Vogel Sawyer captivated millions with her emotionally moving gem Waiting for Summer's Return-a CBD Top-Twenty Fiction. Set in 1936 Kansas, Where Willows Grow transports listeners to America's drought-stricken heartland as the hopes and dreams of hardworking farmers blow away with the wind. As pregnant Anna Mae and her husband Harley struggle to feed their growing family, Harley travels 100 miles to build a WPA monument....
15) Prairie habitats
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Discusses the ecology of the prairie, including where the world's prairies are, some of the plants and animals found in prairies, and threats to the prairie.
Author
Language
English
Description
Thousands of impoverished Northern European immigrants were promised that the prairie offered "land, freedom, and hope." The disastrous blizzard of 1888 revealed that their free homestead was not a paradise but a hard, unforgiving place governed by natural forces they neither understood nor controlled, and America's heartland would never be the same.
This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews,...
20) Prairies
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"Simple text and supportive images introduce beginning readers to the physical characteristics and geographic locations of Prairies"--Provided by publisher.
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