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Dance at Grandpa's

adapted from the little house books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
1994
A young pioneer girl and her family attend a wintertime party at her grandparents' house in the big woods of Wisconsin.

Little house in the big woods

1994
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 relatives or neighbors.

Christmas in the Big Woods

adapted from the little house books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
1995
A young pioneer girl and her family celebrate Christmas in their cabin in the Wisconsin woods.

Drowning Ruth

2001
Unable to deal with her problems, Amanda Starkey flees to her sister's farm, but when her sister drowns in a mysterious accident, Amanda is forced to take charge of her young niece, and she soon realizes that she has not left her problems behind, she has merely brought them with her.

Dark Dude

2009
In the 1960s, Rico Fuentes, a pale-skinned Cuban American teenager, abandons drug-infested New York City for the picket fence and apple pie world of Wisconsin, only to discover that he still feels like an outsider and that violent and judgmental people can be found even in the wholesome Midwest.

Ida B

--and her plans to maximize fun, avoid disaster, and (possibly) save the world
2005
In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her mother begins treatment for breast cancer and her parents must sell part of the orchard and send her to public school.

Little house in Brookfield

1996
Young Caroline Quiner, who would grow up to become Laura Ingalls Wilder's mother, and her family survive their first year without Father in the frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin.

No one else can have you

As sixteen-year-old Kippy of Friendship, Wisconsin, reads her best friend Ruth's diary, she is shocked at what she learns and spurred to solve Ruth's murder, certain that the boy who was arrested is innocent.

Caddie Woodlawn

1973
The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.

Going to town

adapted from the little house books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
1995
A little pioneer girl and her family, living in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, make their first trip into town to visit the general store.

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