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This beloved story of a pioneer girl and her family begins in 1871 in a log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Laura lives in the little house with her pa, her ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their dog, Jack. Pioneer life is sometimes hard for the family, but it is also exciting as they make their own homemade toys and treats, do the spring planting, bring in the harvest, and visit town. And every night Laura and her family are...
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Twelve-year-old Mitch and his mother are spending the summer with his grandparents at Bird Lake after his parents separate, and ten-year-old Spencer and his family have returned to the lake where Spencer's little brother drowned long ago, and as the boys become friends and spend time together, each of them begins to heal.
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Series
Little house chapter books. Caroline volume 1
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Presents the daily experiences and adventures of young Caroline Quiner, the girl who would grow up to be Laura Ingalls Wilder's mother, in the frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin.
11) The pumpkin war
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Twelve-year-old Billie enjoys summer on Wisconsin's Madeline Island, where she harvests honey, mucks llamas stalls, and grows a giant pumpkin, determined to reclaim her title in the annual pumpkin race.
12) One came home
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English
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In 1871 Wisconsin, thirteen-year-old Georgia sets out to find her sister Agatha, presumed dead when remains are found wearing the dress she was last seen in, and before the end of the year gains fame as a sharpshooter and foiler of counterfeiters.
13) I, Emma Freke
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English
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Growing up near Boston with her free-spirited mother and old-world grandfather, twelve-year-old Emma has always felt out of place but when she attends the family reunion her father's family holds annually in Wisconsin, she is in for some surprises.
15) The island
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English
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Fifteen-year-old Wil discovers himself and the wonders of nature when he leaves home to live on an island in northern Wisconsin.
16) Some quiet place
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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"Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Caldwell sees, rather than feels, emotions; they're beings who walk among us. The only emotion who engages with her now is Fear, and he's as desperate as Elizabeth is to figure out how she became this way"--
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Little house (HarperCollins). Caroline years volume 2
Little house. The Caroline years volume 2
Little house. Caroline years volume 2
Little house. The Caroline years volume 2
Little house. Caroline years volume 2
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the story of young Caroline Quiner, who would grow up to become Laura Ingalls Wilder's mother, as she and her family have new adventures as the frontier outpost of Brookfield, Wisconsin, grows into a bustling town.
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