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1) Land of the buffalo bones: the diary of Mary Elizabeth Rodgers, an English girl in Minnesota

Author

Bauer, Marion Dane

Series

Dear America

Pub. Date

2003.

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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.

2) To the far blue mountains

Author

L'Amour, Louis

Series

The Sacketts volume 2
A Bantam book
The Louis L'Amour collection

Formats

Book, Audio Cassette, CD

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This is the concluding volume of the saga of Barnabus Sackett, patriarch of that family. He returns to England, where he learns of an order for his arrest. The gold coins he found in Sackett's land are thought to be the royal treasure King John lost in the Wash during the time of the Crusades. After encountering some old friends and enemies from the previous book, he returns to America with Abigail, his new bride. He establishes a community between...

3) A prince among them: Shadow of Liberty series

Author

Lacy, Al

Series

Shadow of liberty volume 3

Pub. Date

c2001

4) To the far blue mountains

Author

L'Amour, Louis

Series

The Sacketts volume 2

Pub. Date

[1976]

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The trail points West, with his wife by his side Barnabas Sackett begins to carve a place for himself out of the Eastern American landscape.

5) A place at the table

Author

Faruqi, Saadia

Formats

Book, CD, Playaway

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Sixth-graders Sara, a Pakistani American, and Elizabeth, a Jewish girl, connect in an after school cooking club and bond over food and their mothers' struggles to become United States citizens.