Raising Readers
Pioneers
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
Karen Cushman
X Cushman
In 1849, twelve-year-old California Morning Whipple, who renames herself Lucy, is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a rough California mining town.
Caddie Woodlawn
Carol Ryrie Brink
NB Brink
The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.
Charlotte's Rose
A. E. Cannon
X Cannon
As a twelve-year-old Welsh immigrant carries a motherless baby along the Mormon Trail in 1856, she comes to love the baby as her own and fear the day the baby's father will reclaim her.
Growing Up in Zion: True Stories of
Young Pioneers Building the Kingdom
Susan Arrington Madsen
979.2 Mad
Reminiscences describing Mormon youth growing up in Utah between 1847 and 190
I Walked to Zion
Susan Arrington Madsen
917.8 Madsen
True stories of young pioneers on the Mormon Trail.
Laura Ingalls Wilder: Growing Up in
the Little House
Patricia Reilly Giff
X 92 Wilder
A biography of the author of the ?Little House? books, including the years of her marriage to Almanzo Wilder.
Little House in the Big Woods
Laura Ingalls Wilder
X Wilder
A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with friends and relatives. First in this classic series based on the author's early years.
The Matchlock Gun
Walter Dumaux
NB Dumaux
In 1756, during the French and Indian War in upper New York state, ten-year-old Edward is determined to protect his home and family, with the ancient, and much too heavy, Spanish gun that his father had given him before leaving home to fight the enemy. Winner of the Newbery Award in 1942.
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Patricia MacLachlan
NB MacLachlan
When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay. There are two sequels: Skylark and Caleb's Story .
The Sign of the Beaver
Elizabeth George Speare
NB Speare
Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.
Trouble River
Betsy Byars
X Byars
When he builds his raft, a twelve-year-old boy never dreams that it will serve as the sole means of escape for himself and his grandmother when hostile Indians threaten their prairie cabin.