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1) My Antonia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
The reminiscences of a New York lawyer, Jim Burden, about his boyhood in Nebraska, particularly a young Bohemian girl named Antonia Shimerda, are set against the backdrop of the American assimilation of the immigrant
2) My Ántonia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Antonia Shimerda, the destitute child of Bohemian immigrants, and Jim Burden, a native Virginian who, after being orphaned at the age of ten, is sent to live with his grandparents in Nebraska. Jim goes to Harvard, becomes a traveling busnissman,a nd returns to Nebraska infrequently; Antonia elopes with a shiftless railroad conductor, comes home disgraced, and finds happiness with Anton Cuzak, a gentle farmer.
3) O pioneers!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 along to a new zest for life. Years of privation are rewarded on the farm. But when Alexandra falls in love with Carl Linstrum, and her family objects because he is poor, he leaves to seek a different career. After Alexandra's younger...
6) Dandelions
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Zoe and her family find strength in each other as they make a new home in the Nebraska territory.
7) Dalva
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Beautiful, fearless, tormented, at 45 Dalva has lived a life of lovers and adventures. Now she returns to the bosom of her family and searches for the son she gave up years before.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Essie Myles, an 83-year-old widowed obituary writer for a small Nebraska newspaper stumbles onto the story of her life. The paper's printing press has been working double-time since a New York publisher contracted it to print part of the print run for the final installment of a wildly popular YA novel series-part of a plan to keep the book's contents under wraps-and Essie kicks into high gear as well when she gets a tip from a local that her daughter,...
9) One of ours
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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One of Ours is a novel by Willa Cather, first published in 1922. The novel won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. One of Ours tells the story of the life of Claude Wheeler, a Nebraska native around the turn of the 20th century. The son of a successful farmer and an intensely pious mother, he is guaranteed a comfortable livelihood. Nevertheless, Wheeler views himself as a victim of his father's success and his own inexplicable malaise. The novel...
11) A perfect evil
Author
Series
Maggie O'Dell novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Nick Morrelli is the Platte City, Nebraska, sheriff who must be smarter than he appears, since there's a framed Harvard law degree hanging on his wall. Not that appearances don't count. Nick is investigating the kidnap-murders of two young Platte City boys when FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell shows up and all but takes over the investigation. Several years earlier, the former sheriff--Nick's father--capped his own career with the arrest of the last serial...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Hope visits her new foster mother's Nebraska farm and, through old letters, a diary, and stories, gets a vivid picture of the past in the voices of four girls her age who lived there in 1869, 1900, 1936, and 1960.
13) Nebraska!
Author
Series
Wagons West. Main series volume 2
Language
English
Description
Virginia City! Boom town on the wild Nevada frontier! Atop the silver-rich mountains of the Comstock Lode were the desperate dreamers, thousands of men and women lured by the glittering promise of limitless wealth. But as the bountiful mother lode is mined, the nation itself is being torn apart by a burning confrontation that threatens to destroy America for ever.
14) Sixteen Brides
Author
Language
English
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Description
Sixteen Civil War widows travel from St. Louis, Missouri to Plum Grove, Nebraska, with dreams of owning land and finding love on the prairies.
15) Autumn letters
Author
Publisher
Michael Frederick
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
This is a coming-of-age story set in the mid-sixties, in America's heartland. The story spans three years in the lives of four teenagers connected to a small Nebraska town.
16) Worth dying for
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
There's deadly trouble in the corn country of Nebraska ... and Jack Reacher walks right into it. First he falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it's the unsolved case of a missing child, already decades-old, that Reacher can't let go.
Author
Series
Quilt chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Barbour Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Emilie Rhodes was taught to think for herself, but doing so makes her want to write the "real news." This offends her newspaper editor father, who fires her. When Emilie begins writing anonymously for her father's competition, she finds herself falling in love with lecturer and dramatist Noah Shaw. Noah in turn seeks answers to stories tied with his grandmother's quilts, even though the truth may lead to brokenness-- or hope and healing.
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Language
English
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"Ten years after the Seventh Cavalry massacred more than two hundred Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee, J.B. Bennett, a white rancher, and Star, a young Native American woman, are murdered in a remote meadow on J.B.s land. The deaths bring together the scattered members of the Bennett family: J.B.'s cunning and hard father, Drum; his estranged wife, Dulcinea; and his teenage sons, Cullen and Hayward. As the mystery of these twin deaths...
20) Nothing but sky
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Grace Lafferty, an eighteen-year-old wing-walker, thrills crowds with barrel rolls and loop-the-loops in hopes of making enough money to get to the 1922 World Aviation Expo"--
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