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Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After grasshoppers ruin the crops, eight-year-old Laura Ingalls and her family leave Plum Creek and move to Burr Oak, Iowa, where they experience life in a small town and help manage a hotel.
Author
Publisher
E.P. Dutton
Pub. Date
[1983]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Carley recalls the extraordinary summer when, as a troubled fourteen-year-old, he first came to northern Minnesota to stay with his blacksmith Uncle David and gained not only new skills but also a new sense of himself.
12) Farm team
Author
Series
Billy Baggs novels volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
With his father in jail and his mother working full-time, fourteen-year-old Billy Baggs finds himself in charge of running the family farm in northern Minnesota and having to give up the thing he loves most--baseball.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Each member of Erik Sheepflattener's modern-day Viking-heritage family has a motto to live by. Erik is developing a motto he can truly believe in : AVOID STUFF. But when he and his older sister Brunhilde spend the summer with their rough-and-tumble cousins in Minnesota, axe-wielding Bru gets the idea to name and conquer all of Erik's fears."
14) Blackwater Ben
Author
Series
Blackwater Ben adventures volume 1
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In the winter of 1898, a seventh-grade boy drops out of school to work with his father, the cook at Blackwater Logging Camp in Minnesota.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A tough Minnesota winter brings many changes to Kirsten's frontier life, including the new responsibility of helping her brother Lars set his traps and a move into a new house for her family.
17) Striking out
Author
Series
Billy Baggs novels volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Since the death of his older brother, thirteen-year-old Billy Baggs has had a distant relationship with his father, but life on their farm in northern Minnesota begins to change when he starts to play baseball.
18) Claws
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Jed and Laura, two popular Minnesota high school students, find their seemingly perfect lives suddenly in chaos when they discover that each has a parent who is having an affair with the other.
19) Hooper
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
For Adam Reed, basketball is a passport. Adam s basketball skills have taken him from an orphanage in Poland to a loving adoptive mother in Minnesota. When he s tapped to play on a select AAU team along with some of the best players in the state, it just confirms that basketball is his ticket to the good life: to new friendships, to the girl of his dreams, to a better future.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Kirsten is proud and excited when she finds a bee tree full of honey, one of the natural treasures of her Minnesota frontier world, but she exposes herself to great danger by trying to harvest the honey by herself.
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