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1) My Ántonia
Author
Language
English
Description
Emigrating from Bohemia to Black Hawk, Nebraska, with her family, Antonia discovers no white-framed farmhouse or snug barn. Instead, the cultured Shimerda family finds itself huddled in a primitive sod house buffeted by the ceaselessly blowing winds on the Midwest prairie. For her childhood friend Jim Burden, Antonia comes to embody the elemental spirit of this frontier. Working alongside men, she survives without compromising the rich, deep power...
3) Worth
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After breaking his leg, eleven-year-old Nate feels useless because he cannot work on the family farm in nineteenth-century Nebraska, so when his father brings home an orphan boy to help with the chores, Nate feels even worse.
4) Dandelions
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Zoe and her family find strength in each other as they make a new home in the Nebraska territory
6) Nebraska!
Author
Series
Wagons West volume 2
Publisher
Pinnacle
Pub. Date
c1978.
Language
English
Description
Whip Holt leads a caravan of courageous men and women whose determination to carve a new life in the frontier of early nineteenth-century America is tested by inhospitable terrain, the elements, and hostile Indians.
7) Elsie's bird
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
The heroine is Amalia Holmsdorfer, one of a band of German immigrants who settle on the prairie. From her late teens to her mid-eighties she confronts and defeats the forces of nature and society that discourage or ruin others. Her life might be a modest triumph but for one detail: she married the wrong man.
9) O Pioneers!
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend." "The heroic battle for survival of simple pioneer folk in the Nebraska country of the 1880s. John Bergson, a Swedish farmer, struggles desperately with the soil but dies unsatisfied. His daughter Alexandra resolves to vindicate his faith, and her strong character carries her weak older brothers and her mother alng to a new zest...
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