Fourteen-year-old Hope visits her new foster mother's Nebraska farm and, through old letters, a diary, and stories, gets a vivid picture of the past in the voices of four girls her age who lived there in 1869, 1900, 1936, and 1960.
After breaking his leg, eleven-year-old Nate feels useless because he cannot work on the family farm in nineteenth-century Nebraska, so when his father brings home an orphan boy to help with the chores, Nate feels even worse.
Natalie and her playboy fianc? Pierre, a French couple touring America by bus, find a whole different way of life, and perhaps love, when they become stranded in the very small town of Seldom, Nebraska.
Presents sixteen essays on twentieth-century American writer Willa Cather's novel "My Antonia, " plus a biography of Cather and introductory discussion of the novel's characters and plot.
An illustrated introduction to Nebraska that covers the geography, climate, weather, plants, animals, history, people, cities, transportation, natural resources, industry, sports, and entertainment of the state.
Provides information about the geography, history, government, economy, people, and places of Nebraska, and includes photographs, maps, sidebars, a time line, an almanac of state facts, and a gallery of famous Nebraskans.
Examines the geography, history, government and economy, people, achievements, and landmarks of Nebraska, and includes a listing of state identifications, a time line, and a calendar of celebrations.
In 1881 fifteen-year-old Tad helps a girl in her attempt to get a mighty Indian elephant to friends in Nebraska, while pursued by two unscrupulous villains who wish to take the elephant from her.
