prairies

When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.

In 1880, Noah's aunt teaches the reluctant nine-year-old how to read as they explore the Colorado prairie together, Noah pushing Aunt Dora in her wheelchair.

When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.

When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.

Nora and her family have just arrived from Russia. The prairie is very different from the forested hills Nora is used to. Most of all, it's lonely. Nora has no one and nothing to call her own--until Papa brings home a dozen chicks and two geese. Nora names each one, and they follow her everywhere--even to church! But what will happen when one of her beloved chicks goes missing?.

Young Elsie must find a way to adapt to her new home on the Nebraska prairie after she and her father leave their comfortable city life in Boston.

When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.

Sam Peppard, a blacksmith in 1860s Kansas, builds a prairie schooner that sails to Denver, Colorado, powered by wind.

Easy-to-follow text teaches young readers about prairies and the different types of plants and animals that are found there.

Discusses the climate, geology, plants, animals, ecology, and environmental problems of the grassland.