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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.

Hardcover:

9780385729284 | Wendy Lamb Books, November 1, 2003, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: 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.

Paperback:

9780816691920 | Reprint edition (Univ of Minnesota Pr, January 1, 2014), cover price $11.95
9780440420088 | Reprint edition (Yearling Books, July 12, 2005), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: 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.

Library:

9780385901499 | Wendy Lamb Books, November 1, 2003, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: 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.

Reinforced:

9780606339773 | Demco Media, July 12, 2005, cover price $14.55 | About this edition: Thirteen-year-old Ben works at Blackwater Logging Camp as cook’s helper to his Pa.

Prebinding:

9781435273009 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 9, 2008), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: According to thirteen-year-old Ben Ward’s father, lumberjacks look forward to two things: mealtime and springtime.
9781417713080 | Turtleback Books, July 1, 2005, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: 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.

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In 1900, as a family of Finnish immigrants begins farming on the edge of a Minnesota lake, Matti works as a store clerk, teaches English, and works on the homestead, striving to get out of his older brother's shadow and earn their father's respect.

Hardcover:

9780385327312 | Wendy Lamb Books, October 1, 2002, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: In 1900, as a family of Finnish immigrants begins farming on the edge of a Minnesota lake, Matti works as a store clerk, teaches English, and works on the homestead, striving to get out of his older brother's shadow and earn their father's respect.

Paperback:

9780816675692 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, February 14, 2011, cover price $11.95
9780440228998 | Reprint edition (Yearling Books, February 1, 2004), cover price $5.50 | About this edition: In 1900, as a family of Finnish immigrants begins farming on the edge of a Minnesota lake, Matti works as a store clerk, teaches English, and works on the homestead, striving to get out of his older brother's shadow.

Library:

9780385900553 | Wendy Lamb Books, November 1, 2002, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: In 1900, as a family of Finnish immigrants begins farming on the edge of a Minnesota lake, Matti works as a store clerk, teaches English, and works on the homestead, striving to get out of his older brother's shadow and earn their father's respect.

Reinforced:

9780606308328 | Demco Media, August 30, 2004, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: In 1900, as a family of Finnish immigrants begins farming on the edge of a Minnesota lake, Matti works as a store clerk, teaches English, and works on the homestead, striving to get out of his older brother's shadow.

Prebinding:

9781435278387 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 16, 2008), cover price $14.50 | About this edition: For fifteen-year-old Matti Ojala and his family, Finnish immigrants in Minnesota in 1900, starting a new life in America is both a hardship and an opportunity.
9780613851121 | Turtleback Books, February 1, 2004, cover price $15.40 | About this edition: In 1900, as a family of Finnish immigrants begins farming on the edge of a Minnesota lake, Matti works as a store clerk, teaches English, and works on the homestead, striving to get out of his older brother's shadow.

A story of frontier love and courage...Newlyweds Molly and David are only sixteen and eighteen years old when they pack up their wagon and head west across the plains in search of a new homestead. At first their new life is full of promise: The wheat is high, the dugout is warm and cozy, and a new baby is born to share in their happiness. Then disaster strikes, and David must go east for the winter to find work. Molly is left alone with the baby -- with nothing but her own courage to face the dangers of the harsh prairie winter.

Hardcover:

9780718824280 | Lutterworth Pr, September 30, 1979, cover price $23.50 | About this edition: A story of frontier love and courage.
9780848805579 | Amereon Ltd, June 1, 1976, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: After getting married and settling at Wild Plum Creek, David's and Caroline's lives are turned upside down when disaster strikes and David must go east to find work for the winter.
9780070362055 | McGraw-Hill, May 1, 1976, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: After getting married and settling at Wild Plum Creek, David's and Caroline's lives are turned upside down when disaster strikes and David must go east to find work for the winter.

Paperback:

9780064406987 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins Childrens Books, October 1, 1998), cover price $8.99 | About this edition: After getting married and settling at Wild Plum Creek, David's and Caroline's lives are turned upside down when disaster strikes and David must go east to find work for the winter.
9780553201734 | Reissue edition (Bantam Books, April 1, 1981), cover price $1.95 | About this edition: A sixteen-year-old girl and an eighteen-year-old boy begin their married life on the Dakota prairie where they confront the hardships and challenges of farming in the wilderness

Reinforced:

9780606177788 | Demco Media, June 1, 1998, cover price $14.55 | About this edition: After getting married and settling at Wild Plum Creek, David's and Caroline's lives are turned upside down when disaster strikes and David must go east to find work for the winter.

Prebinding:

9781442003804 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $15.99
9780785773818 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $19.65 | About this edition: After getting married and settling at Wild Plum Creek, David's and Caroline's lives are turned upside down when disaster strikes and David must go east to find work for the winter.

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Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.
By Garth Williams (illustrator)

Prebinding:

9781439590683 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

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Hardcover:

9781593694548 | 1 edition (Amer Girl Pub, August 6, 2008), cover price $29.95

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Having moved from Sweden to his new home in Minnesota, Carl Erik must make great adjustments to live in his new environment, including learning English, building relationships with his Indian neighbors, and taking over as man of the house when his father is working far away from home.

Hardcover:

9780060580773 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, September 1, 2007, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Carl Erik, a recent immigrant from Sweden, becomes the man of the house when his father and uncle go to work in a logging camp, and he learns many things about life in Minnesota while attending school, doing his chores, and trying to put meat on the table.

Library:

9780060580780 | Harpercollins, September 1, 2007, cover price $16.89 | About this edition: Carl Erik, a recent immigrant from Sweden, becomes the man of the house when his father and uncle go to work in a logging camp, and he learns many things about life in Minnesota while attending school, doing his chores, and trying to put meat on the table.

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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. Reissue.

Paperback:

9780060885465 | Reissue edition (Harpercollins Childrens Books, January 1, 2007), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: 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.

Prebinding:

9781435205277 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 28, 2007), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: 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.

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When her Aunt Flo comes to help care for eleven-year-old Evie and her younger sister after their mother's death, Evie wants nothing to do with her and she is especially uncomfortable with her aunt's calling of helping prepare bodies for burial. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780805066517 | Henry Holt & Co, April 1, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: When her Aunt Flo comes to help care for eleven-year-old Evie and her younger sister after their mother's death, Evie wants nothing to do with her and she is especially uncomfortable with her aunt's calling of helping prepare bodies for burial.

Paperback:

9780805081855 | Reprint edition (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, June 12, 2007), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: When her Aunt Flo comes to help care for eleven-year-old Evie and her younger sister after their mother's death, Evie wants nothing to do with her and she is especially uncomfortable with her aunt's calling of helping prepare bodies for burial.

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Five short stories starring pioneer girl Kirsten are followed by brief actual accounts of what frontier life was like.
By Renee Graef (illustrator), Kim Lewis (illustrator) and Janet Beeler Shaw

Hardcover:

9781593693237 | Amer Girl Pub, August 30, 2006, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Five short stories starring pioneer girl Kirsten are followed by brief actual accounts of what frontier life was like.

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Five short stories starring pioneer girl Kirsten are followed by brief actual accounts of what frontier life was like.
By Renee Graef (illustrator), Philip Hood (illustrator), Kim Lewis (illustrator), Susan McAliley (illustrator) and Valerie Tripp

Hardcover:

9781593691219 | Amer Girl Pub, August 21, 2006, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Five short stories starring pioneer girl Kirsten are followed by brief actual accounts of what frontier life was like.

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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. Reprint.
By Jim Lamarche (illustrator) and Cynthia Rylant

Hardcover:

9780060295615 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, April 1, 2002, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: 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.

Paperback:

9780064409902 | Reprint edition (Trophy Pr, June 1, 2004), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: 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.

Library:

9780060295622 | Harpercollins, April 1, 2002, cover price $16.89 | About this edition: 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.

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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.

Prebinding:

9781417627264 | Turtleback Books, May 25, 2004, cover price $17.20 | About this edition: 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.

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Laura and her family suffer many hardships their first winter on the Minnesota frontier.

Prebinding:

9781417701483 | Turtleback Books, May 1, 2004, cover price $19.65 | About this edition: Laura and her family suffer many hardships their first winter on the Minnesota frontier.

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Living on a farm in southwestern Minnesota in the 1870's, a brother and sister try to help their family cope with plagues of locusts

Paperback:

9780876146392 | First Avenue Editions, April 1, 1994, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Living on a farm in southwestern Minnesota in the 1870's, a brother and sister try to help their family cope with plagues of locusts

Library:

9780876147719 | Carolrhoda Books, April 1, 1994, cover price $22.60 | About this edition: Living on a farm in southwestern Minnesota in the 1870's, a brother and sister try to help their family cope with plagues of locusts.

Prebinding:

9780613682022 | Turtleback Books, December 1, 2003, cover price $17.15 | About this edition: Living on a farm in southwestern Minnesota in the 1870's, a brother and sister try to help their family cope with plagues of locusts

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Fourteen-year-old Polly Rodgers keeps a diary of her 1873 journey from England to Minnesota as part of a colony of eighty people seeking religious freedom, and of their first year struggling to make a life there, led by her father, a Baptist minister.

Hardcover:

9780439220279 | Special edition (Scholastic, April 1, 2003), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Fourteen-year-old Polly Rodgers keeps a diary of her 1873 journey from England to Minnesota as part of a colony of eighty people seeking religious freedom, and of their first year struggling to make a life there, led by her father, a Baptist minister.

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Ten-year-old Kirsten regrets the promise she has made to a ragged boy she discovers alone near a wrecked covered wagon not far from her Minnesota home.
By Renee Graef (illustrator), Kim Lewis (illustrator), Susan McAliley (illustrator) and Janet Beeler Shaw

Hardcover:

9781584856962 | Amer Girl Pub, March 1, 2003, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Ten-year-old Kirsten regrets the promise she has made to a ragged boy she discovers alone near a wrecked covered wagon not far from her Minnesota home.

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Kirsten is afraid the Chippewa Indians will harm her family or her dog, Caro, but when Caro is in danger, there is only one place Kirsten can turn for help. 35,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9781584854791 | Amer Girl Pub, March 1, 2002, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: In 1854, ten-year-old Kirsten, living with her family in Minnesota, meets a raiding party of Ojibway Indians and finds unexpected help when her dog is in danger.

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Ten-year-old Kirsten is proud and excited when she finds a bee tree full of honey, but she exposes herself to great danger by trying to harvest the honey by herself

Prebinding:

9780833519092 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $17.15 | About this edition: Ten-year-old Kirsten is proud and excited when she finds a bee tree full of honey, but she exposes herself to great danger by trying to harvest the honey by herself

Whenever Jimmy visits his grandfather he asks to hear about how Great-great-great-grandfather Lars traveled with his family from Denmark to Minnesota and built a home that was the beginning of the town of New Hope

Hardcover:

9780688139254 | Lothrop Lee & Shepard, May 1, 1995, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Danish immigrants Lars and Karen Jensen settle alongside a river when the axle on their wagon breaks and start a ferry service, which eventually develops into the town of New Hope

Paperback:

9780140563597 | Reprint edition (Puffin, April 1, 1998), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Whenever Jimmy visits his grandfather he asks to hear about how Great-great-great-grandfather Lars traveled with his family from Denmark to Minnesota and built a home that was the beginning of the town of New Hope

Library:

9780688139261 | Lothrop Lee & Shepard, May 1, 1995, cover price $14.93 | About this edition: Danish immigrants Lars and Karen Jensen settle alongside a river when the axle on their wagon breaks and start a ferry service, which eventually develops into the town of New Hope

Reinforced:

9780606136587 | Reprint edition (Demco Media, April 1, 1998), cover price $13.53 | About this edition: Whenever Jimmy visits his grandfather he asks to hear about how Great-great-great-grandfather Lars traveled with his family from Denmark to Minnesota and built a home that was the beginning of the town of New Hope

Prebinding:

9780613084321 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $14.15 | About this edition: Whenever Jimmy visits his grandfather he asks to hear about how Great-great-great-grandfather Lars traveled with his family from Denmark to Minnesota and built a home that was the beginning of the town of New Hope

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In 1864 when his family moves to Bellfield, Minnesota, where his father will be the town minister, twelve-year-old Ben misses his friend Zack, who is now a drummer in the Union Army, but he finds a new friend in an orphan whose parents were killed duringan Indian raid.

Paperback:

9780801040238 | Baker Pub Group, August 1, 1995, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: In 1864 when his family moves to Bellfield, Minnesota, where his father will be the town minister, twelve-year-old Ben misses his friend Zack, who is now a drummer in the Union Army, but he finds a new friend in an orphan whose parents were killed duringan Indian raid.

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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. Newbery Honor Book. Reissue.

Hardcover:

9781581180992 | Large print edition (Library Reproduction Services, June 1, 2002), cover price $35.95 | About this edition: After all their travelling, from the Big Woods and the Prarie, the Ingalls family have found a place to settle - Plum Creek.
9781557361516 | Large print edition (Cornerstone Books, September 1, 1989), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: 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.
9781850899419 | Large print edition (Abc-Clio Inc, August 1, 1988), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Laura and her family suffer many hardships their first winter on the Minnesota frontier
9780060264703 | Revised edition (Harpercollins Childrens Books, June 1, 1953), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: 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.

Paperback:

9780060885403 | Reissue edition (Harper Trophy, January 1, 2007), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: 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.
9780060581831 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, May 1, 2004, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: Laura and her family suffer many hardships their first winter on the Minnesota frontier.
9780060522391 | 1 edition (Avon Books, April 1, 2003), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Laura and her family suffer many hardships their first winter on the Minnesota frontier.
9780749709327 | New edition (Gardners Books, May 7, 1992), cover price $8.80 | About this edition: After all their travelling, from the Big Woods and the Prarie, the Ingalls family have found a place to settle - Plum Creek.
9780064400046 | 1 edition (Harpercollins Childrens Books, March 1, 1973), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: 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.

CD/Spoken Word:

9780060544003 | Unabridged edition (Harperfestival, April 1, 2003), cover price $25.99 | About this edition: 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.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780060012434 | Unabridged edition (Harperfestival, April 1, 2003), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: 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.

Library:

9780060264710 | Harpercollins, June 1, 1953, cover price $15.89 | About this edition: Ma, Pa, Laura, Mary, and Carrie settle on the prairie land of Minnesota where runaway cattle, wolves, torrential creeks, a grasshopper plague, and a long blizzard offset the joys of a new house, school friends, church socials, and the comfort of a town only three miles away.

Reinforced:

9780606042338 | Demco Media, March 1, 1973, cover price $15.64 | About this edition: 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.

Prebinding:

9781435205291 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 28, 2007), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: 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.
9780613714235 | Turtleback Books, April 30, 2003, cover price $14.65 | About this edition: Laura and her family suffer many hardships their first winter on the Minnesota frontier.
9780808537984 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $15.70 | About this edition: 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.
9780606015646 | Turtleback Books, January 7, 1994, cover price $17.20 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

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Ten-year-old Kirsten is proud and excited when she finds a bee tree full of honey, but she exposes herself to great danger by trying to harvest the honey by herself

Hardcover:

9780937295915 | Amer Girl Pub, September 1, 1990, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Ten-year-old Kirsten is proud and excited when she finds a bee tree full of honey, but she exposes herself to great danger by trying to harvest the honey by herself

Paperback:

9780937295397 | Amer Girl Pub, June 1, 1988, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Ten-year-old Kirsten is proud and excited when she finds a bee tree full of honey, but she exposes herself to great danger by trying to harvest the honey by herself

Reinforced:

9780606038409 | Demco Media, June 1, 1988, cover price $14.66 | About this edition: Ten-year-old Kirsten is proud and excited when she finds a bee tree full of honey, but she exposes herself to great danger by trying to harvest the honey by herself

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