kansas

An account of the senseless murder of a Kansas farm family and the search for the killers.

In 1856, a cholera outbreak forces nine-year-old Meg Wells to leave her family and comfortable life in St. Louis to live with relatives in frontier Kansas.

Anna Nickel is a young girl who loves things just the way they are--so when she gets word that her parents are planning on moving the family from Colorado to Kansas, and the school year isn't even over yet, she understandably gets upset. Now Anna will have to handle a new school, cousins she has never met, a lost pet, strange new classmates and townspeople, and small-town church potlucks.

When the residents of the town of Oleander, Kansas, start acting strangely, the witnesses of a series of suicide-killings must band together to save the town from whatever has come over it.

In the late 1850s, with her mother dead and her brother riding for the Pony Express, Matty often finds that she must face all the dangers of pre-Civil War Kansas alone on the family farm.

In 1994, Fig looks back on her life and relates her experiences, from age six to nineteen, as she desperately tries to save her mother from schizophrenia while her own mental health and relationships deteriorate.

Lu Wonder, a bright, curious girl who hopes to be a scientist, sets out from her Kansas home in 1855 with her best friend Eustace, a slave, on a journey to Antarctica to protect a mysterious artifact and hide it from the man responsible for her father's death.

When a dark force overtakes the town of Oleander, Kansas and causes its citizens to descend into murderous madness, five individuals step up to confront the darkness and find a way to defeat it in order to save the town from itself.

Tells story of Irena Sendler who organized the rescue of 2,500 Jewish children during World War II, and the teenagers who started the investigation into Irena's heroism.

Celebrates the tradition of Kansas cowboy verse through a collection of 136 poems, organized by theme, representing the work of fifty-six poets born between 1823 and 1971.