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Magic tree house. Original series volume 23
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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.
3) May B
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Cozy Winter Reads for Middle Grades
OBD National Poetry Month (April) - YOUTH
Winter at Blackhawk
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OBD National Poetry Month (April) - YOUTH
Winter at Blackhawk
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When a failed wheat crop nearly bankrupts the Betterly family, Pa pulls twelve-year-old May from school and hires her out to a couple new to the Kansas frontier.
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100 cupboards volume 1
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After his parents are kidnapped, timid twelve-year-old Henry York leaves his sheltered Boston life and moves to small-town Kansas, where he and his cousin Henrietta discover and explore hidden doors in his attic room that seem to open onto other worlds.
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After a devastating tornado destroys much of Cape Bluff, Kansas, residents come together as a community to put on a talent show as a fund-raiser.
The kids of Cape Bluff, Kansas, had no idea there were so many aspiring stars among them until a tornado ripped through their town. That's when they decide to have a talent show to raise money to rebuilt. How everyone is showing what they are made of: the good, the bad, and the bizarre. But the kids have...
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American Girl history mysteries volume 12
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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.
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"After a series of suicide-killings and a deadly storm, the residents of the town of Oleander, Kansas, start acting even more strangely than would be expected. Only the 5 witnesses of the murders retain their sound minds, and must band together to save the town from whatever has come over it"--
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Celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month!
OBD Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (May) - Youth
OBD Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (May) - Youth
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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.
9) Red Menace
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"During the summer of 1953, thirteen-year-old Marty's parents are suspected of communist sympathies, upending his life and causing him to question what it really means to be a patriotic American"--
10) The recruit
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With her family's farm failing, Tessa's best hope of attending college is a soccer scholarship but the offer her best friend helps arrange would mean giving up her boyfriend.
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Boxcar children volume 105
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English
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The Aldens try to solve a series of mysteries which took place in a old hotel in Kansas which they visit.
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"Kansas, 2065: Adri has been handpicked to live on Mars. But weeks before launch, she discovers the journal of a girl who lived in her house more than a hundred years ago and is immediately drawn into the mystery surrounding her fate. Oklahoma, 1934: Amid the fear and uncertainty of the Dust Bowl, Catherine's family's situation is growing dire. She must find the courage to sacrifice everything she loves in order to save the one person she loves most....
13) Anna was here
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Three generations of the Nickel family reunite when fourth-grader Anna, her Mom and Dad, and four-year-old sister Isabella relocate to Oakwood, Kansas.
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Magic tree house volume 23
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Español
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Annie y Jack viajan a la década de 1870, en la casa del árbol. Al llegar, aterrizan sobre la pradera, cerca de una escuela que sólo tiene un aula. Allí conocen a la maestra, una joven adolescente, a unos niños muy simpáticos y a otro niño más grande, y peleón. ¡Pero lo más duro y aterrador todavía está por venir! ¡Un tornado!
When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn, " they gain an understanding...
16) For this land
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Meg records in her diary the events from July to November of 1856, when her family is reunited and must face challenges from fires to pro-slavery border ruffians who are trying to take over Kansas Territory.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 2
Little house books volume 3
LRS large print cornerstone
Little House.Laura years volume 2
Little house books volume 3
LRS large print cornerstone
Little House.Laura years volume 2
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When Laura Ingalls and her family leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, they head west for the open prairie skies of Kansas Territory. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the perfect spot for Pa to build them a new home. Soon they are planting and plowing, hunting wild ducks and turkeys, and gathering grass for their cows. But just when they begin to feel settled, they are caught in the middle of a dangerous...
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Mike is struggling to come to terms with her father's suicide and her mother's detachment from the family. Mike (real name: Mary Elizabeth) is gay and likes to pump iron, play softball, and fix plumbing. When a glamorous new girl, Xanadu, arrives in Mike's small Kansas town, Mike falls in love at first sight. Xanadu is everything Mike is not -- cool, confident, feminine, sexy... straight.
20) Dandelion fire
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100 cupboards volume 2
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Presents the continuing adventures of Henry York, who has been living in Kansas with his cousins, where he discovers doorways leading to other worlds and becomes involved in a multi-world struggle between good and evil.
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