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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First Harper Trophy edition.
Language
English
Description
After moving with their widowed mother to the home in the woods near Concord, Wisconsin, nine-year-old Caroline Quiner, who grows up to become the mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and her brothers and sisters try to adjust to their new neighborhood and new stepfather.
86) Farmer boy: 2
Author
Pub. Date
1953.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Almanzo lives with his family on a big farm in New York State at the end of the nineteenth century. He raises his own two calves, helps cut ice and shear sheep, and longs for the day he can have his own colt.
Author
Series
Little house chapter books. Caroline volume 4
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Caroline Quiner, who grows up to become the mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, spends time with neighbors, makes a new friend, and attends the Maple Frolic in the frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin.
89) Going to town
Series
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
A little pioneer girl and her family, living in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, make their first trip into town to visit the general store.
Laura and her family make their first trip into town to visit the general store.
Author
Pub. Date
1935.
Edition
[Book club edition].
Language
English
Description
The story of a year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, helping their Mother, enjoying their Father's stories, and sharing special occasions with relatives and neighbors. A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.
92) Bachelor girl
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Having left her parents' Missouri farm for good and trained to become a telegraph operator in Kansas City, teenage Rose moves out to San Francisco and joins the thousands of "bachelor girls" supporting themselves.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
In Scotland in 1791, eight-year-old Martha Morse, who would grow up to become the great-grandmother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder, meets her new governess and learns the difference between growing up a laird's daughter and a child of a cottager.
Author
Series
Little house chapter book volume Rose 1
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Even though she is sad to leave her home in South Dakota, Rose has many new experiences as she and her parents and the Cooley family make their journey to Missouri.
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Celebrate the holidays with two classic specials, restored to original broadcast length and remastered for superior picture and sound. In "Christmas at Plum Creek," the members of the Ingalls family share a heartwarming first Christmas in their new home, and Laura makes a personal sacrifice that captures the meaning of the holidays. In "A Christmas They Never Forgot," the family waits out a snowstorm by remembering favorite Christmases from the past....
100) Missouri school days
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After moving from South Dakota, Rose Wilder eventually makes friends, proves herself to be the best speller in her class, and copes with a difficult teacher at her new Missouri school.
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