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1) Prairie days
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes summer days growing up on the prairie.
2) Skylark
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
In late nineteenth-century Colorado, Louisa's father is erroneously arrested for thievery and, while under the charge of the awful Smirch family, Louisa and a magical friend must find a way to prove his innocence.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Amy and her mother look for a very special butterfly while attending the annual Fourth of July Butterfly Count at a prairie restoration site. Includes factual information about butterflies and how to attract and watch them.
7) Prairie town
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes a year in the life of a prairie town including the effect of seasons and of economics on the ebb and flow of this agricultural community.
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On the Nebraska prairie in 1880, eleven-year-old Emma finds a way to celebrate the spirit of Christmas while her mother, a midwife, delivers a baby on Christmas Eve.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
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....
11) Skylark
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 5
Publisher
Sarah Productions
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the children have to leave the farm.
Author
Language
English
Description
This book explains how you can profitably raise grain and livestock while regenerating your Prairie Soil back to Natural Health and Productivity.
Chapter 1: Prairie History
Locations, Origins, Settlement.
Chapter 2: Prairie Ecology
Rules of Nature, Developing a Farm Plan.
Chapter 3: Plants for a Prairie Farm
Rotate Mixtures of Companion Grains and Forages.
Chapter 4: Animals for a Prairie Farm
Grassland Use for Soil Renewal and Climate Control.
Chapter...
Author
Language
English
Description
Keystone Prairie Dogs: This is the last in a series of three eBooks, which uses social commentary and photographic parodies-to raise awareness of a highly valuable and misunderstood species in the hopes of broadening the conversation through humor combined with education.
The Keystone Prairie Dog images represent spoofs on a broad range of subjects, including the colonizing Mars, which has been an increasingly hot topic, as NASA steps up the pace...
17) Elsie's bird
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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.
18) Kindred souls
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten year-old Jake shares a special bond with his grandfather, Billy, but when Billy asks Jake to build him a sod house, Jake is not sure he wants to do it.
Author
Language
English
Description
The stories in Coming Home are as surprising as the landscape of Saskatchewan itself and as varied as its weather. Through the author's reminiscences, we experience prairie life as it was more than sixty years ago, and as it is today. A rich cast of characters appears - neighbours, drunks, misfits - all with a place in the story. These are the tales of a father who lived hard, failed often, and was loved much, of a mother who was an artist at heart...
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