kansas

An immigrant family travels to Kansas by covered wagon, builds a sod house on the prairie and overcomes danger and hardship.

Just when twelve-year-old Summer thinks nothing else can possibly go wrong in a year of bad luck, an emergency takes her parents to Japan, leaving Summer to care for her little brother while helping her grandmother cook and do laundry for harvest workers.

Based on a fictional Kansas character, a very large Johnny Kaw clears the plains, tames a tornado, and creates the Rocky Mountains by throwing boulders in this original tall tale.

Explores the history of America during the violent time period as territories entered the Union as free or slave states, discussing the Missouri Compromise, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the abolition movement, Nat Turner's Rebellion, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the Lincoln-Douglas Debates.

Accounts of the daily lives of Kansas pioneer women selected from 800 memoirs collected by the author's greatgrandmother.

Stories of the citizens of Rattlebone, a "fictional" black community north of Kansas City in the 1950s.

When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn," they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers and they experience the terror of a tornado.