kansas

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kansas

In the face of danger

1988
Deeply unhappy about her family's separation because of poverty, Megan gradually finds contentment and purpose in her new home on the Kansas prairie with a kind and loving adopted family.

The wish stealers

2010
Years ago pennies were stolen from a wishing fountain, and it falls to Griffin to set things right, but he will undoubtedly face grave dangers on his quest.

Wagon wheels

1978
Shortly after the Civil War a black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act.

In the face of danger

2000
Deeply unhappy about the separation of her family because of poverty, twelve-year-old Megan gradually finds contentment and purpose in her new home on the Kansas prairie with a kind and loving adopted family.

The promised land

1996
Orphaned by their mother's death, two Irish Catholic sisters find a home with a kind Protestant couple on the Kansas frontier, but their new life is suddenly threatened by the appearance of their uncle, who is determined to take them back to New York and their "true" religion.

May B.

a novel
2012
When a failed wheat crop nearly bankrupts the Betterly family, twelve-year-old May's father pulls her from school and hires her out to a couple new to the Kansas frontier.

Dandelion fire

2009
As Henry York's time on his aunt and uncle's farm draws to a close, Henry makes a rash decision to step into one of the alternate universes hidden behind the cupboard doors and search for the truth about who his parents are and where he came from.

How to draw Kansas's sights and symbols

2002
Presents step-by-step instructions for drawing Kansas's official symbols, including its seal, flag, flower, and tree.

Hard times on the prairie

1998
Laura Ingalls and her pioneer family struggle against hardships on the Kansas frontier, including a prairie fire, a grasshopper invasion, and a blizzard.

Riddle of the prairie bride

2001
In 1878, twelve-year-old Ida Kate and her widowed father welcome a mail-order bride and her baby to their Kansas homestead, but Ida Kate soon suspects that the bride is not the woman with whom Papa has corresponded.

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