missouri

"Somewhere just east of Peculiar...Hannah Garvey is about to run smack into her new life.".

Draws from primary collections, newspaper articles, government documents, and other sources to trace the life of Nathan Boone, youngest son of frontiersman Daniel Boone, discussing his activities as a hunter, trapper, surveyor, and military man.

Chronicles the experiences Laura Ingalls Wilder had while living in Missouri from 1894 to 1957.

During the 1930's a Missouri farm girl is told by a fortuneteller that she will die before she is fourteen.

An abridged version of the story of Laura Ingalls Wilder, her husband, and seven-year-old daughter, Rose, who in 1894, leave the Ingalls family in Dakota and make the long and difficult journey to Missouri to start a new life.

Examines the cultural, musical, and religious traditions of African Americans living in Missouri during the 1700s.

When Rose Wilder and her parents arrive in Missouri, they must work hard to make a rundown farm into their own home.

Explores the long range impact of the January 1942 lynching upon the civil rights of African Americans.

Presents Mark Twain's classic novel set in the antebellum South about two infant boys, one the light-skinned son of a female slave and the other the son of her master, who are switched at birth, and contains a timeline of significant events, outline of themes and plots, and critical analysis.

Tom finds a lucrative way to whitewash a fence, meets Becky Thatcher, and, along with Huck Finn, witnesses a murder in the graveyard where they are searching for a cure for warts.