kansas

After they move to Kansas, Cody and his friend Maria try to help a local artist who was cheated when she bought a wooden carousel horse.

In her diary for 1856, 9-year-old Meg describes the long, dangerous journey she and her younger brother make from Missouri to Kansas, as well as the new life they find there.

Examines the crusade against America's liberal establishment in the last two decades, and analyzes why conservatives have voted against their own economic and political concerns, and discusses how people living in Kansas have pushed their own religious agenda without apology.

Thirteen-year-old Dana investigates a mystery involving the old Kansas house that her parents have turned into a bed and breakfast business; in a parallel story, a Quaker boy living in the house in 1857 sets out to help some fugitive slaves to freedom.

Meg records in her diary the events from July to November of 1856, when her family is reunited and must face challenges from fires to pro-slavery border ruffians who are trying to take over Kansas Territory.

In this book Meg brings her prairie diary to an end describing her days in the Kansas Territory, a deadly twister, and the start of school.

Colin and Justin leave the violence and decay of New York City and settle in a small Kansas village, expecting to live a calm, quiet life, but they soon give up that dream when they find themselves getting caught up in the secrets of the other townspeople.

When fourteen-year-old Cassie's family purchases an old stone mansion in the Flint Hills of Kansas, she finds herself dealing with a mysterious ghost and a desperate man.

The coming of age story of an African-American boy in a small Kansas town.