Garth Williams
3) Emmett's pig
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[1959]
Language
English
Description
Emmett wants a pig very badly, but he lives in a city apartment.
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 5
Language
English
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Description
Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories which describe the experiences of a pioneer girl and her family as they celebrate various Christmases In the Big Woods in Wisconsin, on the prairie in Indian Territory, and on the banks of Plum Creek.
11) The rescuers
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
c[2011]
Language
English
Description
Miss Bianca, a white mouse of great beauty and self-confidence, travels with the ambassador's son to Norway on behalf of the Prisoner's Aid Society in a perilous mission to rescue a poet imprisoned in the dreadful Black Castle.
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 7
Language
English
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Description
Pa's homestead thrives, Laura gets her first job in town, blackbirds eat the corn and oats crops, Mary goes to college, and Laura gets into trouble at school, but becomes a certified school teacher.
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
The eighth book in Laura Ingalls Wilder's treasured Little House series, and the recipient of a Newbery Honor.
Fifteen-year-old Laura lives apart from her family for the first time, teaching school in a claim shanty twelve miles from home. She is very homesick, but she knows that her earnings can help pay for her sister Mary's tuition at the college for the blind. Only one thing gets her through the lonely weeks—every
...Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors.
15) Farmer boy
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The year Almanzo Wilder turned nine (1866) was an important one for the young farm boy in northern New York state.
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 4
Language
English
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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.
17) The long winter
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather.