wisconsin

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wisconsin

It happened in Wisconsin

"In an America ravaged by the Great Depression, a talented but ragtag baseball team sets out to change the world. Barnstorming the back roads and dusty ballparks of the Midwest, the Racine Robins rally fans to the populist cause, raising money for soup kitchens and strike funds even as they thrill small-town crowds and dazzle opponents on the field. Yet winning the hearts and minds of the people turns out to be easier for the players than facing the twin seductions of love and money, conflicting desires that threaten to derail everything they are fighting to achieve. After a sudden April snowstorm forces the Robins to find shelter in the Rockefeller hotel, the team begins to pull apart. Tensions mount: one player falls in love for the first time and old friendships threaten to unravel as the men face temptations and ambition. Can this tough, tight-knit group stay true to its great cause when dreams and longing come knocking?"--Amazon.com.

Caddie Woodlawn

2006
Chronicles the adventures of eleven-year-old Caddie growing up with her six brothers and sisters on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.

Crunching gravel

growing up in the thirties
1988

Christmas in the Big Woods

1995
A young pioneer girl and her family celebrate Christmas in their cabin in the Wisconsin woods.

Gaylord Nelson

a day for the earth
1992
Examines the life and work of the politician who worked on the state and national level to protect the environment and was responsible for the first Earth Day in 1970.

Hope was here

2005
When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.

Bird Lake moon

2010
Twelve-year-old Mitch, spending the summer with his grandparents at Bird Lake after his parents' separation, becomes friends with ten-year-old Spencer, who has returned with his family to the lake where his little brother drowned years earlier, and as the boys spend time together and their friendship grows, each of them begins to heal.

Cranberries

fruit of the bogs
1994
Provides information about the history of cranberries, and follows activities on a cranberry farm, from planting to harvest.

Frontier family

[adaptation by Heather Henson] ; adapted from the Caroline years books by Maria D. Wilkes ; illustrated by Doris Ettlinger
2000
Caroline Quiner, who grows up to be the mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, shares all kinds of adventures with her brothers and sisters on their small farm in Brookfield, Wisconsin.

Brookfield friends

2000
Caroline Quiner, who grows up to become the mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, spends time with neighbors, makes a new friend, and attends the Maple Frolic in the frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin.

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