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1) My Ántonia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Depicts the pioneering period of European settlement in the American prairie through the stories of Jim Burden and Antonia Shimerda, who is the embodiment of the pioneer spirit.
2) O pioneers!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cather presents the story of the Nebraska prairie. Alexandra Bergson, daughter of Swedish immigrant farmers, is devoted to the land and suffers the hardships of prairie life.
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 15
Language
English
Description
Jack Reacher clashes with an organized crime family that is terrorizing Nebraska corn country in their efforts to supply dangerous international customers, a battle that is complicated by the unsolved case of a missing child.
4) My Antonia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
The reminiscences of a New York lawyer, Jim Burden, about his boyhood in Nebraska, particularly a young Bohemian girl named Antonia Shimerda, are set against the backdrop of the American assimilation of the immigrant.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her aunt gets into a car accident, Anise is forced to leave her friends and surfing behind to spend the summer in Nebraska to help care for her cousins, and by doing so, forms familial bonds and new friendships that challenge her feelings of abandonment by her mother.
Author
Series
Leah's garden volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lilac Nielsen's dream has come true: Reverend Ethan Pritchard has finally noticed her. But she must balance this new courtship with her dream of publishing her artwork in a New York newspaper. She has been submitting the drawings under a pen name, and if anyone traces them to her the entire Nielsen family could be in danger. When a family crisis back in Ohio shakes the Nielsen sisters, can they continue to build the new life they've begun in Nebraska?...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Larkspur Nielsen is determined to keep the family homestead running, even if she must do it alone. When she discovers that Isaac McTavish has feelings for her, she pushes him away to protect her heart. But how can she build the life shes always dreamed of when unexpected dangers arrive?"--"--
Author
Series
Sadie Rose adventures volume 11
Publisher
Crossway Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Sadie and Opal learn to trust God as they find their way through an adventure at a Nebraska poor farm.
Author
Series
Prairie promises volume 3
Publisher
Barbour
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In the Nebraskan Territory of 1859, Gavin Miller writes home to request the hand of Miss Marguerite Chandler. Unfortunately, while he never forgot Marguerite was the French word for Daisy, he?d failed to recall that the two cousins shared their grandmother?s name, and Marge was the nickname of the wrong Miss Marguerite Chandler! When his surprise bride comes to Buttonwood, unexpectedly followed by the very cousin he?d meant to marry, will Gavin be...
Author
Series
Quilt chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Author
Series
Sadie Rose adventures volume 9
Publisher
Crossway Books
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
With God's help, thirteen-year-old Sadie tries to resolve the running feud that develops between her and Barr, the orphan who has come to live with her Nebraska pioneer family.
Author
Series
Sadie Rose adventures volume 10
Publisher
Crossway Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sadie Rose and a runaway woman from Boston depend on their faith when they lose their way in a snow storm and are taken captive by rustlers on the Nebraska frontier.
17) Fire storm
Author
Series
Kaely Quinn profiler volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When FBI profiler Kaely Quinn visits Nebraska to care for her ailing mother, she notices suspicious connections among a series of local fires and calls on her partner, Noah Hunter, to help find the arsonist. They embark on a twisted path to catch a mad man intent on Kaely's death"--
When her mother is diagnosed with cancer, FBI profiler Kaely Quinn 'takes time off work to go to Dark Water, Nebraska. The area has been hit by a series of fires, attributed...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Hope visits her new foster mother's Nebraska farm and, through old letters, a diary, and stories, gets a vivid picture of the past in the voices of four girls her age who lived there in 1869, 1900, 1936, and 1960.
Author
Series
Publisher
Evergreen Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twin brothers Kent and Kyle Morris are on the hunt for a wild turkey they've named Scarface when a new opportunity comes up. They find a map for a hidden treasure and are soon on the hunt for the mysterious riches.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon...
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