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BRANSON, MISSOURI
For Kids
Across Five Aprils
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) |
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Naya Nuki, Shoshoni Girl Who Ran
Kenneth Thomasma
Eunice Hundley
LITERATURE
1983
PAPER
131 PAGES
MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
Kidnapped by another tribe, Naya Nuki (along with her best friend, Sacajawea) is taken from her home in Montana and brought to a village in North Dakota. She escapes her captors and makes a long journey through the wilderness in search of her people. Written for preteens, this is a powerful tale of survival and spirit.
(USW316, $7.99) |
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Stories from Where We Live, The Great North American Prairie
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. It includes Native American myths, poems and songs, historical accounts and modern short stories, as well as black-and-white drawings and maps. Ages 9 to 14.
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The House of Dies Drear
Virginia Hamilton
LITERATURE
1984
PAPER
279 PAGES
MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
The late children's author Virginia Hamilton's best-known novel opens when a modern family moves into an old house in Ohio that is a former station of the Underground Railroad. The boy of the house is soon learning all about slavery, the Civil War and (could it be?) ghosts. Ages 9-12.
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