Orem Library

Eleanor's first Christmas on the prairie is different and memorable.

In 1919, Papa, Mama and their four daughters homestead a tract of land near Yuma, Arizona.

Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to the Wild West, where they experience excitement and danger and try to solve a riddle.

Johnny Appleseed was an important historical figure, well known for planting apple orchards across the new frontier. But he was also a master storyteller! In his own folksy voice, Johnny Appleseed tells his story to a couple of entranced children in this fictionalized Step 2 title. Readers learn how he started planting apple treesand about some of the myths and true stories of his life.

Two brothers spend a year attending a one-room schoolhouse on the frontier.

When a pioneer family moves west the mother misses home so much that she will not even name the new baby until her daughter thinks of just the right thing to cheer her up.

A young pioneer girl and her family prepare to leave the big woods of Wisconsin and travel west in their covered wagon.

Illustrations and simple rhyming text follow a family as they make the difficult journey by wagon to a new home across the Rocky Mountains.

Describes the true living and working conditions of real cowboys in the old West.