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Our only May Amelia

2019
As the only girl in a Finnish American family of seven brothers, May Amelia Jackson resents being expected to act like a lady while growing up in Washington state in 1899.

Sarah, plain and tall

2005
When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.

School days

2017
Laura and her sisters share some good and bad times when they attend different schools near their various prairie homes.

The Sisters brothers

Brothers Eli and Charlie Sisters are ordered by a man known only as the Commodore to kill Hermann Kermit Warm and travel from Oregon City to Warm's gold-mining claim outside of Sacramento to do the job, but along the way Eli begins to doubt his choice in profession.

The ballad of Lucy Whipple

2012
In 1849, twelve-year-old California Morning Whipple, who renames herself Lucy, is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a rough California mining town.

Davy Crockett

2008
A brief biography of Davy Crockett, in graphic novel format, that discusses his childhood, marriage, role in the War of 1812, fighting in the Battle of the Alamo, and more.

Cutthroats

2019
"Lifetime outlaws Jimmy "Slash" Braddock and Melvin "Pecos Kid" Baker are ready to call it quits, but when the younger members of their gang rebel, they must pull one last job to finance a retirement far away from the long arm of the law." --.

Follow me down to Nicodemus town

based on the history of the African American pioneer settlement
"When Dede sees a notice offering land for black people in Kansas, her family decides to quit sharecropping and become homesteading pioneers"--Provided by publisher.

City of gold

"Determined to recover his family's mules, fifteen-year-old Owen is joined by his kid brother and Telluride's notorious marshal in pursuit of a rustler--all the way to Butch Cassidy's hideout"--Provided by publisher.

Laura Ingalls is ruining my life

"A life on the prairie is not all its cracked up to be for one girl whose mom takes her love of the Little House series just a bit too far."--OCLC.

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