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Great Wolf and the Good Woodsman

Great Wolf and the Good Woodsman


by Helen Hoover

  • LITERATURE
  • 2005
  • HARD COVER
  • 40 PAGES
  • YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)

A handsome reprint of a classic holiday fable of peace, joy and understanding set in the North Woods, featuring 30 hand-colored woodcuts by Betsy Bowen. (GLK41, $14.95)

Across Five Aprils

Across Five Aprils


by Irene Hunt

  • LITERATURE
  • 1987
  • PAPER
  • 190 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

Irene Hunt's enduring classic of the Civil War recounts the story of Jethro and his older brothers, who choose to fight on opposite sides during the Civil War. While Jethro grows to adulthood in Illinois (a state neither strictly Yankee nor strictly Reb), his brothers fight and send letters home. Gripping stuff for ages 9-12. (USA44, $6.99)

Little House Boxed Set


by Laura Ingalls Wilder | Garth Williams

  • LITERATURE
  • 1994
  • PAPER
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
  • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE

Laura Ingalls Wilder's wonderful tales of early prairie life based on her childhood experience. (USW445, $62.99)

Naya Nuki, Shoshoni Girl Who Ran

Naya Nuki, Shoshoni Girl Who Ran


by Kenneth Thomasma | Eunice Hundley

  • LITERATURE
  • 1983
  • PAPER
  • 131 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

A story of a Native American girl's escape from her captors. (USW316, $7.99)

Prairie Grasslands


by Wayne Lynch

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 64 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

Through personal anecdote, fact-filled passages, and magnificent full-color photographs, celebrated author and photographer Lynch brings to life the countless wonders of prairie grasslands as he examines their ecology. (GEN481, $8.95)

Stories from Where We Live, The Great North American Prairie

Stories from Where We Live, The Great North American Prairie


by Sara St. Antoine | Paul Mirocha | Trudy Nicholson

  • LITERATURE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 262 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

An anthology of writings about this North American ecoregion, from Alberta and Saskatchewan south to Texas -- wonderfully useful as a young person's guide to people, nature and place. (USM48, $10.95)

Summer of Discovery


by Melody Herr

  • LITERATURE
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 119 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

Two aspiring archaeologists in 1930s Nebraska unearth the story of the Great Plains peoples, from the Ice Age hunters through the final days of the Indian Wars. (USW466, $10.95)

The House of Dies Drear

The House of Dies Drear


by Virginia Hamilton

  • LITERATURE
  • 1984
  • PAPER
  • 279 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

A novel about a modern family living in a haunted Civil War-era house. (USS258, $6.99)

Tree in the Trail


by Holling C. Holling

  • HISTORY
  • 1990
  • PAPER
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

A struggling cottonwood sapling becomes a landmark to travelers, a peace-medicine tree, and after its death in 1834, a yoke which is used on the trail to Santa Fe in Holling's strikingly illusrtated history fo the history of the Great Plains for kids. (USW656, $11.95)

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz


by Robert Sabuda

  • LITERATURE
  • 2000
  • HARD COVER
  • 16 PAGES
  • FAMILY

Celebrate the 75th anniversary of the iconic movie with Sabuda's sparkling 3-D animation (glasses included) of twirling foot-high tornado, glittering Emerald City and other marvels. (USM80, $29.99)

 

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