minnesota

Discusses the life, career, philosophies, and methods of hockey coach Herb Brooks, who grew up in East St. Paul, Minnesota and played amateur hockey before coaching several Olympic teams, four NHL teams, and various university teams.

Chronicles Lois Jenson's experiences working for Eveleth Mines in northern Minnesota and the grueling court case against her employer that lasted ten years and changed the public's understanding of sexual harassment.

A young woman has difficulty adjusting to life in a small town.

Small-town Minnesotan Chastity (Chaz) Bryan wants nothing more than to get some sexual experience before she graduates from high school and moves away, but when she meets an intriguing boy visiting from North Carolina over Christmas break, her tough-girl facade slowly breaks down.

This handbook for educators of K-12 students from Somalia is an invaluable guide to the cultural, religious, socioeconomic, and family issues that these refugee students bring the the classroom. The authors present a sensitive portrait of the traumatic experiences that refugee Somaili families in the United States had to endure in their escape from war to a new life.

Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.

After grasshoppers ruin the crops, eight-year-old Laura Ingalls and her family leave Plum Creek and move to Burr Oak, Iowa, where they experience life in a small town and help manage a hotel.

In 1864 when his family moves to Bellfield, Minnesota, where his father will be the town minister, twelve-year-old Ben misses his friend Zack, who is now a drummer in the Union Army, but he finds a new friend in an orphan whose parents were killed during an Indian raid.

In the summer of 1965, teenager Paul Sutton, a northern Minnesota farm boy, takes a job at a gas station in town, where his strict religious upbringing is challenged by new people and experiences.