nebraska

Recounts the misdeeds of Nebraskan outlaws, including bank robberies and murders.

Grace Lafferty, an eighteen-year-old wing-walker, thrills crowds with barrel rolls and loop-the-loops in hopes of making enough money to get to the 1922 World Aviation Expo.

Twelve-year-old Oliver Watson has everyone convinced that he is extremely stupid and lazy, but he is actually a very wealthy evil genius, and when he decides to run for seventh-grade class president, nothing will stand in his way.

Tells the story of Robert, Margarete and their children Johannes and Dorothea, who emigrate from Germany to the United States in 1850, landing in New Orleans and joining a wagon train headed west to Nebraska, the family establishes a farm outside Omaha, where almost 150 years later their descendants still live. Includes maps and illustrations.

Best friends Max and Sadie do anything and everything together. When Sadie decides to escape life for a while one summer by going to Nebraska, Max tags along, knowing not what to do with herself without Sadie. There they meet the dangerous Dylan, with whom Max falls in love--but so does Sadie. This is the first time anything has come between the two, and the outcome is far from certain.

Sixteen potential brides arrive in Plum Grove, Nebraska, where they risk everything to fulfill their dream of owning land and finding love, turning the townspeople upside down in the process.

"A novel about two girls on the run from their problems, their pasts, and themselves. Max and Sadie are escaping to Nebraska, but they'll soon learn they can't escape the truth"--Provided by publisher.

Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.