Dust Devil
Having moved to Montana from Tennessee in the 1830s, fearless Angelica Longrider--also known as Swamp Angel--changes the state's landscape, tames a wild horse, and captures some desperadoes.
398.2
year: 2010
copies: 31
call number/section: 398.2
lexile: 900
subjects: frontier and pioneer life [X], tall tales, montana [X], picture books for children, tall tales
Hattie Big Sky
After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 91
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: self-reliance, frontier and pioneer life [X], orphans, world war, 1914-1918, montana [X], newbery honor winners, historical fiction, historical fiction
When The Circus Came To Town
An Asian cook and a Chinese New Year celebration help a ten-year-old girl at a Montana stage coach station to regain her confidence after smallpox scars her face.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 530
subjects: self-esteem, frontier and pioneer life [X], chinese new year, circus, chinese americans, montana [X]
Mountain Solo
Tess, a violin prodigy who has been playing since age three, throws away all her training and talent to start a new life with her father in Montana, where she realizes having a normal life isn't always so normal.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810
subjects: violinists, family life, mothers and daughters, stepfamilies, schools, montana [X], frontier and pioneer life [X]
The Big Burn
Three teenagers battle the flames of the Big Burn of 1910, one of the century's biggest wildfires.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 16
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 860
The Big Sky
The first in a six-volume saga about the Western frontier, following the life of Boone Caudill, a young man who learns the ways of the West from farmer Dick Summers, only to turn to violence.
FIC
year: 1992
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 960
Ransacker
Sixteen-year-old Sissel Hemstad and her siblings have been living peacefully in small-town Montana, but while two men, one a mine owner and one a Pinkerton spy, are courting her, using her gift as a Ransacker could doom them all.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: ability, siblings, frontier and pioneer life [X], immigrants, norse mythology, norwegian americans, montana [X], paranormal fiction, historical fiction
Lone Women
Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: