kansas

Provides a comprehensive overview of the state of Kansas, including its history, economy, geography, people, and more.

Just when twelve-year-old Summer thinks nothing else can possibly go wrong in a year of bad luck, an emergency takes her parents to Japan, leaving Summer to care for her little brother while helping her grandmother cook and do laundry for harvest workers.

Based on a fictional Kansas character, a very large Johnny Kaw clears the plains, tames a tornado, and creates the Rocky Mountains by throwing boulders in this original tall tale.

Explores the history of America during the violent time period as territories entered the Union as free or slave states, discussing the Missouri Compromise, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the abolition movement, Nat Turner's Rebellion, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the Lincoln-Douglas Debates.

Seventeen-year-old Joseph, having grown up tightly regulated by his mother, eagerly puts in his applications for college, not realizing his mom intends to accompany him to school.

When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn," they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers and they experience the terror of a tornado.

Discusses the land and climate, economy, government, and history of the state of Kansas. Includes Internet links to Web sites.