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Author
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Lizzy Albright, a red-headed, freckle-faced girl from Overland Park, Kansas, is celebrating her tenth birthday on Christmas Eve 1964. An impending winter storm is approaching as Lizzy and her family travel to Cordelia, Kansas, where they plan to spend the holidays with Granny in the McHale family mansion. An imaginative young girl, an antique quilt, a goose named Gretta, and a cursed kingdom combine as the foundation for a fantastic fantasy filled...
24) Sprout
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Moving from Long Island to Kansas after his mother dies, a teenaged boy nicknamed Sprout is surprised to find new friends, a fascinating landscape, and romantic love.
25) Pioneer summer
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Congress has ruled that settlers in Kansas Territory will decide whether Kansas will enter the Union as a free or a slave state. Charlie Keller's papa is an abolitionist, and he's moving the family to Kansas so he can cast his vote for freedom. Will Kansas ever feel like home to Charlie?
26) The mark
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Sixteen-year-old Cass struggles to learn what, if anything, she should do with her ability of seeing people marked to die within a day's time.
27) Twister
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Antonio slid down the rope. He held on for dear life. It got darker as the twister moved closer. It was loud. Like a giant freight train!
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Nessa's winter was frought with trials, but now spring has come to Prairie River - and so has her dear friend Albert. Albert is Nessa's oldest friend from the orphanage, and she had prayed that he would join her in Kansas ever since she journeyed to the small, remote town a year ago. But a year is a long time, and Albert's arrival is not what Nessa had imagined. Things are different between them, and Nessa must reconcile the changes if she has any...
Author
Series
Prairie River volume 1
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Nessa can't remember a home other than the orphanage, and now she has no choice but to leave. Her plan is to escape on the next stagecoach west--one headed toward Prairie River, Kansas, a town in the middle of nowhere..."
30) Steal away home
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In two parallel stories, a Quaker famly in Kansas in the late 1850's operates a station on the Underground Railroad, while almost 150 years later, twelve-year-old Dana moves into the same house and finds the skeleton of a black woman who helped the Quakers.
31) Dandelion fire
Author
Series
100 cupboards volume 2
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Presents the continuing adventures of Henry York, who has been living in Kansas with his cousins, where he discovers doorways leading to other worlds and becomes involved in a multi-world struggle between good and evil.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Pa Ingalls decides to sell the old house, and the family sets out for Indian Country! They travel from Wisconson to Kansas and there, finally, Pa builds their little house on the prairie. Sometimes farm life is difficult, even dangerous, but Laura and the family are kept busy and are happy with the promise of their new life on the prairie.
33) One sky above us
Author
Series
Adventures of young Buffalo Bill volume 2
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Having settled on the Kansas frontier, young Bill Cody and his family try to make a home for themselves, coexist with their Kickapoo neighbors, and stand up as abolitionists in spite of their neighbors' pro-slavery beliefs.
34) Katy's debate
Author
Series
Katy Lambright series volume 2
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Katy, a Mennonite teenager attending secular high school, joins the debate team, and tries to keep her father from remarrying so that she does not have to adjust to having a stepmother.
Author
Series
Prairie River volume 2
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Nessa can't remember a home other than the orphange, and now she has no choice but to leave. Her plan is to escape on the next stagecoach west--one headed toward Prairie River, Kansas, a town in the middle of nowhere ..."