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Fig

2015
In 1994, Fig looks back on her life and relates her experiences, from age six to nineteen, as she desperately tries to save her mother from schizophrenia while her own mental health and relationships deteriorate.

Wonder at the edge of the world

2015
Lu Wonder, a bright, curious girl who hopes to be a scientist, sets out from her Kansas home in 1855 with her best friend Eustace, a slave, on a journey to Antarctica to protect a mysterious artifact and hide it from the man responsible for her father's death.

The waking dark

When a dark force overtakes the town of Oleander, Kansas and causes its citizens to descend into murderous madness, five individuals step up to confront the darkness and find a way to defeat it in order to save the town from itself.

Thunderbolt from a clear sky

the irrepressible life of Robert W.S. Stevens
2006

Above

a novel
2014
Blythe Hallowell, kidnapped when she was sixteen and hidden away in an abandoned missile silo in Kansas, years later, must try to raise her son and describe a world to him that he has never seen and eventually must face the ultimate choice between survival and freedom.

100 cupboards

2010
Twelve-year-old Henry York and his cousin Henrietta embark on a series of adventures after he discovers one hundred hidden portals to other worlds in the bedroom wall of his aunt and uncle's house.

Gabriel's story

2001
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.

Prairie poetry

cowboy verse of Kansas
1995
Celebrates the tradition of Kansas cowboy verse through a collection of 136 poems, organized by theme, representing the work of fifty-six poets born between 1823 and 1971.

Cabin in the snow

2006
When a bustling Kansas town is threatened by proslave ruffians, Charlie must be responsible and brave.

Amelia Earhart

Lady Lindy
2014
When Maisie and Felix accompany the twins on a trip back through time, they accidentally find themselves in Kansas, with a young girl named Amelia Earhart.

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