kansas

Anna Nickel is a young girl who loves things just the way they are--so when she gets word that her parents are planning on moving the family from Colorado to Kansas, and the school year isn't even over yet, she understandably gets upset. Now Anna will have to handle a new school, cousins she has never met, a lost pet, strange new classmates and townspeople, and small-town church potlucks.

Presents a brief exploration of the history, culture, climate, plants and animals, industries, natural resources, and landscape of the state of Kansas. Includes color photographs, a section of quick facts, a timeline, a glossary, and further resources.

Provides information about Kansas and Nebraska, from their geography, history, and government to their economy, population demographics, and major cities.

Describes the history, politics, and lifestyles in the state of Kansas.

After being taken away from their parents in 1910, twin sisters Nettie and Nellie are put on the orphan train to Kansas by the Children's Aid Society and end up in a house where they are treated more as servants than children.

Continues the Jericho saga, starting exactly where the final episode left off. After twenty-three major cities are leveled by nuclear bombs, the country is divided between the new Allied States formed by twenty-one states west of the Mississippi and the remainder of the United States in the east. As civil war looms, Jake Green, Robert Hawkins, and a resistance group based in Jericho, Kansas, do their best to survive and to prevent the war.

When the residents of the town of Oleander, Kansas, start acting strangely, the witnesses of a series of suicide-killings must band together to save the town from whatever has come over it.

Told in their separate voices, Gavin, a loner outcast, and Delilah, back in small-town Kansas after years at a Massachusetts boarding school, reconnect their senior year, but as their relationship deepens, it is clear that the eerie house Gavin dwells in will do anything to keep the two apart.

In the late 1850s, with her mother dead and her brother riding for the Pony Express, Matty often finds that she must face all the dangers of pre-Civil War Kansas alone on the family farm.

Introduces ten sites located in Kansas while discussing the history of the state.