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English
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"In the frigid days of February, 1870, Caroline Ingalls, her husband Charles, and their little girls, Mary and Laura, leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and head west to settle in a beautiful, unpredictable land full of promise and peril--the Kansas Indian Territory. The pioneer life is a hard one, especially for a pregnant woman with no friends or kin to turn to for comfort or help. The burden of work must be shouldered alone,...
Author
Series
Little House volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.
Author
Series
Little House volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Laura learns that living away from home and teaching school can be a bit frightening when most of the students are taller than she is, but every week Almonzo Wilder arrives to take her to her family for the weekend.
Author
Series
Little House volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Pa's homestead thrives, Laura gets her first job in town, blackbirds eat the corn and oats crops, Mary goes to college, and Laura gets into trouble at school, but becomes a certified school teacher.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Laura and Almanzo Wilder have just been married. Their life on a small prairie homestead begins with high hopes. But each year seems to bring unexpected disasters--storms, sickness, fire, and unpaid debts. These first four years call for courage, strength, and a great deal of determination. Always, though, there is love, especially for the newest member of the family--baby Rose.
11) The long winter
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather.
Author
Series
Little house volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors.
13) Farmer boy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
At the end of the nineteenth century, nine-year-old Almanzo lives with his family on a big farm in New York State where 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 books volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built.
Author
Series
Little house volume 8
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
1953,c1971
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
289 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Laura lives apart from her family for the first time, teaching school in a claim shanty twelve miles from home.
Author
Series
Little house volume 7
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
1953, c1969
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
307 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Laura is now growing up and she goes to her first evening social. Mary is at least able to go to a college for the blind. Best of all, Almanzo Wilder asks permission to walk home from church with Laura.
Author
Series
Little house volume 9
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
134 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Laura Ingalls Wilder is beginning her life with her husband, Almanzo, in their own little house.
Author
Series
Little house volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
1953, c1967
Edition
Revised edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
290 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Laura Ingalls and her family move to the Dakota Territory where Pa works on the new railroad and Laura takes her first train ride.