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2) Wagon wheels
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English
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Shortly after the Civil War, a black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act.
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 23
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English
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When the magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie back to the 1870's, the land on a prairie near a one-room schoolhouse. They meet a teenage schoolteacher, some cool kids, and one big, scary bully. But just when they think their mission is over, a twister sweeps across the prairie! Can Jack and Annie help their new friends? Or will the twister blow them all away?
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Deeply moved by his mother's memories of a waning era and rapidly disappearing lifestyle, John Ise painstakingly recorded the adventures and adversities of his family and boyhood neighbors—the early homesteaders of Osborne County, Kansas. First published in 1936, his "nonfiction novel" Sod and Stubble has since become a widely read and much loved classic. In the original, Ise changed some identities and time sequences but accurately retained the...
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Butterfield Books
Pub. Date
c1999
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English
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This is a mixture of fact and fiction of Charlotta Johnson's life of events that shaped this Swedish immigrant's family, join Charlotta as she reminisces about the important places and events in her past as she bids farewell to her mortal life on the Kansas prairie.