When a failed wheat crop nearly bankrupts the Betterly family, twelve-year-old May's father pulls her from school and hires her out to a couple new to the Kansas frontier.
The Ingalls family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, encounter Native Americans, dig a well, and fight a prairie fire.
Gabriel Lynch, an African-American teenager who has moved with his mother from New York to live on his stepfather's Kansas homestead, brings serious trouble down upon himself and his family when he leaves the farm to join a group of cowboys who turn out to be a gang of criminals.
Laura Ingalls travels with her family from the big woods of Wisconsin to the prairies of Kansas, where they build a house, meet neighboring Native Americans, and face the challenges of frontier life.
Eleven-year-old Jack Clark struggles with everyday obstacles while his family and community contend with the challenges brought on by the Dust Bowl in 1937 Kansas.
Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.
As Henry York's time on his aunt and uncle's farm draws to a close, Henry makes a rash decision to step into one of the alternate universes hidden behind the cupboard doors and search for the truth about who his parents are and where he came from.
