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Little House On The Prairie

author: Wilder, Laura Ingalls, Wilder, Laura I, Lit
A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 156
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760

Ruthie's Gift

author: Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker
Just before the beginning of World War I, eight-year-old Ruthie, who lives with her parents and six brothers on a farm in Indiana, wishes for a sister and tries to behave like the lady her mother wants her to be.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 520
subjects: farm life, family life [X], brothers and sisters, indiana, historical fiction [X], siblings, family

Faraway Summer

author: Hurwitz, Johanna
In the summer of 1910, Dossi, a poor Russian immigrant from the tenements of New York, spends two weeks with the Meade family on their Vermont farm, and all their lives are enriched by the experience.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: farm life, family life [X], jews, city and town life, vermont, historical fiction [X], new york (n.y.)

Hannah Of Fairfield

author: Van Leeuwen, Jean
For almost nine-year-old Hannah Perley of Fairfield, Connecticut, growing up means facing new challenges, both great and small--from saving the life of a baby lamb to helping the family prepare to send her brother Ben to join the colonial soldiers in the American Revolutionary War.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 430
subjects: fathers and daughters, family life [X], historical fiction [X], father-daughter relationship, united states

A Letter To Mrs. Roosevelt

author: De Young, C. Coco
Eleven-year-old Margo fulfills a class assignment by writing a letter to Eleanor Roosevelt asking for help to save her family's home during the Great Depression.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690
subjects: roosevelt, eleanor, depressions, schools, family life [X], great depression, 1929-1939, historical fiction [X]

Dancing In Cadillac Light

author: Holt, Kimberly Willis
In 1968, eleven-year-old Jaynell's life in the town of Moon, Texas, is enlivened when her eccentric Grandpap comes to live with her family.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 16
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: grandfathers, old age, family life [X], city and town life, historical fiction [X], texas, family, families

Anna All Year Round

author: Hahn, Mary Downing
Eight-year-old Anna experiences a series of episodes, some that are funny, others sad, involving friends and family during a year in Baltimore just before World War I.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 610

Seesaw Girl

author: Park, Linda Sue
Impatient with the constraints put on her as an aristocratic girl living in Korea during the seventeenth century, twelve-year-old Jade Blossom determines to see beyond her small world.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 67
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810
subjects: sex role, korea, family life [X], historical fiction [X], family, gender role, families, historical fiction

Fruitlands

author: Whelan, Gloria
Fictional diary entries recount the true-life efforts of Louisa May Alcott's family to establish a utopian community known as Fruitlands in Massachusetts in 1843.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 860
subjects: alcott, louisa may, utopias, family life [X], diaries, historical fiction [X], massachusetts

Tadpole

author: White, Ruth
In rural Kentucky in 1955, Serilda Collins, single mother of four lively girls, discovers that her orphaned nephew is being subjected to brutality.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 20
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: child abuse, orphans, cousins, family life [X], historical fiction [X], kentucky, families

How I Found The Strong

author: Mcmullan, Margaret
Frank Russell, known as Shanks, wishes he could have gone with his father and brother to fight for Mississippi and the Confederacy, but his experiences with the war and his changing relationship with the family slave, Buck, change his thinking.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 860

Grandfather's Dance

author: Maclachlan, Patricia
As her family gathers for the wedding of her sister Anna, fourth-grader Cassie Whiting sees the many changes brought about by everyday life and finds comfort in the love of those around her, especially her grandfather.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 22
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 450
subjects: family, grandfathers, family life [X], historical fiction [X]

Some Friend

author: Bradby, Marie
In 1963, Pearl, an eleven-year-old black girl in Fairfax, Virginia, learns about the real nature of friendship from the popular but untrustworthy Lenore, and Artemesia, a poor girl who moves into the neighborhood for a brief time.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:

The Deer In The Wood

author: Graef, Ren?e
A pioneer father tells his two small daughters why he was unable to shoot a deer for their dinner.
FIC
year: 1995
copies: 43
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800
subjects: frontier and pioneer life, family life [X], deer, historical fiction [X], wisconsin

Working Cotton

author: Williams, Sherley Anne
A young African-American girl relates the daily events of her family's migrant life in the cotton fields of central California.
FIC
year: 1997
copies: 61
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 600

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