Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 105
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Aldens try to solve a series of mysteries which took place in a old hotel in Kansas which they visit.
2) Firebrand
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1848 Vienna, fifteen-year-old August Bondi is forced to emigrate to America, leaving behind his comrades in the revolution. In his new country he is confronted by the evil of slavery, and sets out for Bleeding Kansas to join forces with the notorious John Brown.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
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?
Author
Series
Adventures of Beanboy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wheaton, Kansas seventh-grader Tucker MacBean loves comic books, so when his favorite comic has a contest to create a sidekick, he is hopeful that he can win, thereby fixing his struggling family.
12) Pioneer summer
Author
Series
Prairie skies volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Language
English
Description
Charlie Keller has trouble feeling at home after his abolitionist father, wanting to cast a vote for freedom, moves his family from Massachusetts to the Kansas Territory which is on the verge of deciding whether to enter the Union as a free or a slave state.
13) Our Kansas Home
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
While tension over slavery grows in Kansas Territory, causing the Underground Railroad to shut down, and Papa is away, hiding from a false arrest, Charlie and his family risk everything to hide a runaway slave girl in their cabin.
14) Shiner and King
Author
Publisher
Hearth
Pub. Date
�1998
Language
English
Description
This book continues the adventures of friends Carley and Troop, in rural Kansas in the 1940s. Carley's German shepherd, King, shows his heroic nature as the story unfolds.
19) Katy's new world
Author
Series
Katy Lambright series volume 1
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Katy Lambright gets permission to attend a public high school outside of her Mennonite community, but her relationships with her family and lifelong friends become strained as she struggles to find a balance between two very different worlds.