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Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 10
Language
English
Description
Make storytime a little spookier with the #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time! Every visit to the magic tree house leads to a time-travel adventure!
Is this town HAUNTED? Jack and Annie wonder when the Magic Tree House whisks them to the Wild West. But before they can say "Boo!" they rush headlong into an adventure filled with horse thieves, a lost colt, rattlesnakes, and a cowboy named Slim. Will Jack and Annie have time...
Is this town HAUNTED? Jack and Annie wonder when the Magic Tree House whisks them to the Wild West. But before they can say "Boo!" they rush headlong into an adventure filled with horse thieves, a lost colt, rattlesnakes, and a cowboy named Slim. Will Jack and Annie have time...
Author
Series
Dread nation volume 2
Language
English
Description
"After the fall of Summerland, Jane McKeene hoped her life would get simpler: Get out of town, stay alive, and head west to California to find her mother. But nothing is easy when you're a girl trained in putting down the restless dead, and a devastating loss on the road to a protected village called Nicodemus has Jane questioning everything she thought she knew about surviving in 1880s America. What's more, this safe haven is not what it appears...
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In 1851 twelve-year-old Sarah is a free Black, happy living with her parents, grandparents, and brother on their own farm in Iowa; but her father has been bitten by the gold bug and wants to take the trail west to California, and after some argument it is decided that the grandparents will stay on the farm, but the rest of the family will go; the journey will be difficult and dangerous, but if they survive extreme weather, difficult terrain, illness,...
4) Follow me down to Nicodemus town: based on the history of the African American pioneer settlement
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman and Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When Dede sees a notice offering land for black people in Kansas, her family decides to quit sharecropping and become homesteading pioneers.
5) The kid
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge Move
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In 1880s Colorado, young Henry is trying to keep his brothers together now that their parents are dead by writing stories about The Kid, and after he stops, his editor, Herbert, arrives at the same time as Snake Eye Sam, who is determined to take down The Kid.
Author
Series
Legends of the lost causes volume 3
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Ever in pursuit of justice and revenge for their killed families, Keech Blackwood and his fellow orphans travel to Skeleton Peak to retrieve a magical object that could help Reverend Rose return to his full, villainous strength.
Author
Series
Legends of the lost causes volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In an 1850s Wild West filled with supernatural beasts and magic-wielding outlaws, Keech and his band of fellow orphans, seeking revenge for their killed families, search for Bonfire Crossing, the Osage land that holds clues to the wherabouts of the all-powerful Char Stone.
Author
Publisher
Fulcrum Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In 1874, the U.S. Army sent troops to subdue and move the Native Americans of the southern plains to Indian reservations, and this chronicles the brief and brutal war that followed. Told from the viewpoint of two youths from opposite sides of the fight, this is a tale of conflict and unlikely friendship in the Wild West"--
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Young colt Sky was born with the urge to run. Alongside his band, he moves across the range searching for fresh water and abundant grazing. But humans have begun to encroach on Sky's homelands. With fewer resources to share, Sky knows that he must leave if his family is to survive. He hopes that one day, he'll be strong and brave enough to return and challenge the stallion to lead the herd. Being a lone wild horse in a vast landscape is not easy,...
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Donner Party expedition is one of the most notorious stories in all of American history. It's also a fascinating snapshot of the westward expansion of the United States, and the families and individuals who sacrificed so much to build new lives in a largely unknown landscape. From the preparation for the journey to each disastrous leg of the trip, this book shows the specific bad decisions that led to the party's predicament in the Sierra Nevada...
11) My Calamity Jane
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Hold on to your hats: The authors who brought you the New York Times bestseller My Plain Jane, which Booklist praised as delightfully deadpan (starred review) and Publishers Weekly called a clever, romantic farce (starred review), are back with another irreverent historical adventure. Welcome to 1876 America, a place bursting with gunslingers, outlaws, and garou -- better known as werewolves. And where there are garou, there are hunters: the one and...
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Ranger, a golden retriever, could have been a great search-and-rescue-dog except for the squirrels--but one day he unearths a mysterious box and finds himself transported back to the year 1850 where his faithful service is really needed by a family traveling west along the Oregon Trail.
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