minnesota

In 1902 sixteen-year-old Kristin travels with her family from Sweden to a new life in Minnesota, where she finds herself frustrated by the restrictions placed on what girls of her age are expected or allowed to do.

Gives an overview of the state of Minnesota, including its history, geography, people, and living conditions.

Fourteen-year-old Polly Rodgers keeps a diary of her 1873 journey from England to Minnesota as part of a colony of eighty people seeking religious freedom, and of their first year struggling to make a life there, led by her father, a Baptist minister.

Fourteen-year-old Anthony Monday of Hoosac, Minnesota, and his friend Miss Eells, the Hoosac librarian, try to stop an evil wizard from turning the world into an icy wasteland.

Introduces the geography, history, industries, people, and other highlights of Minnesota.

Uses the story of a young girl and her family to describe life on a small farm in Minnesota in the nineteenth century.

Provides a look at the history and importance of one particular frontier fort in Minnesota and describes what life was like for its inhabitants.

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.

Ten-year-old Kirsten is proud and excited when she finds a bee tree full of honey, one of the natural treasures of her Minnesota frontier world, but she exposes herself to great danger by trying to harvest the honey by herself.

Living on a farm in southwestern Minnesota in the 1870s, a brother and sister try to help their family cope with invading grasshoppers that threaten to destroy their crops.