kansas

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.

A song sparrow, a mole, a bear, and an owl must struggle through the cold, harsh months of winter.

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

Truman Capote's extraordinary nonfiction book about the course of two killers in this world--their lives, their senseless slaughter of an entire family, their executions--was faithfully adapted for the screen in this 1967 film by Richard Brooks.

Recounts the exploits of famous Kansas outlaws, including Jesse James, Big Nose Kate, Doc Holliday, and the Bird Man of Kansas.

An African-american youth in a small town in Kansas finds himself the only witness to a murder.

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.

First-person account by the youngest of five children born to a prosperous Kansas wheat farmer during the Roaring Twenties and the Great Dekpression, of a family's struggle to preserve their relationships and maintain the farm after the father became seriously crippled when the author was just a child.

Nessa must face down her own doubts as well as those of the local townspeople in order to save herself and her students when the schoolhouse is threatened by an unexpected prairie fire.

Nessa leaves her orphanage in 1865 and settles in the little town of Prairie River, Kansas, where she relies on her Christian faith to help her survive on the frontier.