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1) Cape Cod
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton, Mifflin
Pub. Date
c1893
Edition
New Riverside ed.
Physical Desc
336 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Robert Pinsky is Professor of English at Boston University and an editor of the weekly online magazine Slate. He is the author of many books of poetry and literary criticism. He served two terms as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1997-2000.
This new paperback edition of Henry D. Thoreau's compelling account of Cape Cod contains the complete, definitive text of the original. Introduced by American poet...
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
1990 0]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
286p map
Language
English
Description
With her parents both now dead, fifteen-year-old Corrie Belle Hollister must raise her four younger brothers and sisters on her own in a California mining camp
Author
Language
English
Description
"The incredible true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Horse and The Eighty-Dollar Champion. In 1954, Annie Wilkins, a sixty-three-year-old farmer from Maine, embarked on an impossible journey. She had no relatives left, she'd lost her family farm to back taxes, and her doctor had just given her two years...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on true events, this compelling survival story by award-winning novelist Jane Kirkpatrick is full of grit and endurance. Beset by storms, bad timing, and desperate decisions, 8 women, 17 children, and one man must outlast winter in the middle of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1844.
1844. The Stevens-Murphy company left Missouri to be the first wagons into California through the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Mostly Irish Catholics, the party sought...
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
1989, c1986
Edition
1st Harper Trophy ed.
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
While traveling west with her family in 1850, a young girl makes a patchwork quilt chronicling the experiences of the journey and reserves a special patch for her pet hen Josefina.
11) Bound for Oregon
Author
Publisher
Dial
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of the journey made by nine-year-old Mary Ellen Todd and her family from their home in Arkansas westward over the Oregon Trail in 1852.
Author
Publisher
Iowa State Univ Pr
Pub. Date
[1989 c1988]
Physical Desc
184p maps
Language
English
Description
Drawing on his experiences and memories, the author presents essays discussing people he has known, his days as a college basketball player, a chance meeting with Charles Kuralt, and a canoe trip
14) Apples to Oregon
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged): col. ill.; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A pioneer father transports his beloved fruit trees and his family to Oregon in the mid-nineteenth century. Based loosely on the life of Henderson Luelling.
15) Italian days
Author
Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub. Date
1989
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 479 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the bestselling author of Prayers for Sale, an inspiring celebration of sisterhood on the perilous Overland Trail "If you are an adventuresome young woman of high moral character and fine health, are you willing to travel to California in search of a good husband?" It's February, 1852, and all around Chicago, Maggie sees the postings soliciting "eligible women" to travel to the gold mines of Goosetown. A young seamstress with a small daughter...