Author: Leslie Grubb Publisher: Lg Press ISBN: 9780985221614 Category : Languages : en Pages : 150
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Winnie hates her new house. She hates her new neighborhood. And she hates her new school. Schallenberger Elementary? Who could even pronounce that let alone spell it? And why was this Schallenberger guy important enough to name a school after him? Then, as she's digging through moving boxes, Winnie comes across a journal that contains the story of Moses Schallenberger - and his cat, Biggs. Soon, she finds her self devouring their story, and trying to solve a family mystery! Will Winnie come to realize the importance of her school's namesake? And will she uncover the truth about her great-great-grandma Winnifred in the process?
Author: Bill Hooks Publisher: Turtleback Books ISBN: 9780785788515 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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For use in schools and libraries only. When a young pioneer girl smuggles a cat aboard the wagon train taking her family from Missouri to Oregon, it turns out to be the best thing she could have done.
Author: William H. Hooks Publisher: ISBN: 9780758715616 Category : Cats Languages : en Pages : 62
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When a young pioneer girl smuggles a cat aboard the wagon train taking her family from Missouri to Oregon, it turns out to be the best thing she could have done.
Author: Willa Cather Publisher: Union Square & Co. ISBN: 1454954582 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 127
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When the Bergson family leave their home in Sweden to travel to the United States in search of a better life, they, like many immigrants, are awed by the beautiful harshness of their new life in Nebraska. When their father, John Bergson, grows sick and dies, he leaves the farm in the hands of his eldest daughter Alexandra Bergson. Resourceful and determined, Alexandra devotes her life to her family's farm, determined to prosper even as her neighbors are overwhelmed by the unremitting demands of pioneer life. But when she falls in love with her childhood friend, Carl Linstrum, Alexandra must choose between her duty to the land, and to her heart. A spirited celebration of the immigrants who have shaped the United States, O Pioneers! is a masterpiece by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
Author: J.B. Biggs Publisher: Beacon Publishing Group ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 430
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Spanning 30 years, Child of Wrath is the story of Jonah, initially a tough ten-year old survivor who wants nothing more than a real home where he can be a normal kid. Jonah’s erratic and abusive father leads the family on an endless nomadic quest for the next “great thing”. This dangerous odyssey brings the Franklin family to one cult-like compound after another, culminating in a caged life in a missionary compound in the highlands of Papua New Guinea where Jonah will do almost anything to escape. This coming of age climaxes in joining the Israeli para-troopers and fighting in a war in the Middle East. Can a child of wrath escape the insanity, become his own man, and ultimately create a home for his own son in the aftermath of a train-wreck childhood?
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