middle west

When a neighbor's daughter drowns while under Alice Goodwin's care, a seemingly trivial incident from Alice's past resurfaces and takes on gigantic proportions.

A collection of twelve short stories by Elizabeth Stuckey-French.

When fifteen-year-old New Yorker Melissa Jensen and her parents move to the midwest, she is confronted by antisemitism for the first time, and she must decide whether to reveal her Jewish heritage to her classmates or to go along with the crowd.

Fourteen poems with mid-western themes or settings.

Grandma Essie describes how her family left Missouri by covered wagon looking for a better life and lived in Kansas and Oklahoma before returning to Missouri.

Examines the history of pioneer farmers, focusing on the types of foods they grew and ate, and includes recipes, as well as advice on kitchen safety and cooking equipment.

Trace Bonham knows he is fortunate to be offered a chance at being a paid super stock driver when he is still in high school, but regrets that he must leave his friends and home track and wonders if the sponsor is legitimate.

Describes lives of eight people who played a significant role in the exploration of territory and founding of settlements in the American Midwest. Includes Antoine Cadillac, Charles Langlade, Jean du Sable, George Rogers Clark, Rufus Putnam, Julien Dubuque, and Josiah and Abigail Snelling.

It is 1972 when circumstance carries Ellen Grier and her family back to Holly's Field, WI. Dutifully accompanying her newly unemployed husband, Ellen and her 2 children move into the home of her in-laws on Vinegar Hill. This is a loveless house where calculated cruelty is a way of life.

When a neighbor's daughter drowns while under Alice Goodwin's care, a seemingly trivial incident from Alice's past resurfaces and takes on gigantic proportions.