…here are some historical novels (and a couple of biographies) about kids growing up in America’s frontier country.
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Cora Frear: a true story by Susan Goodman
C BIOGRAPHY FRE
Pioneer Girl: Growing Up on the Prairie by Andrea Warren
C BIOGRAPHY SNY
The Unexpected Adventures of Cora Louise: childhood stories of a little girl growing up in Indiana by Susan Jones
C BIOGRAPHY TYL
Inside Laura’s little house: the little house on the prairie treasury by Carolyn Strom Collins
C BIOGRAPHY WIL
The Little house guidebook by William Anderson
C BIOGRAPHY WIL
Laura Ingalls Wilder by Tanya Lee Stone
C BIOGRAPHY WIL
American Girls: Kirsten’s stories by Janet Beeler Shaw
C KIDS HISTORICAL AME KIRSTEN
The Stout-Hearted Seven by Neta Frazier
C KIDS HISTORICAL GIB
To the Frontier by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
C KIDS HISTORICAL KIM
The School at Crooked Creek by Laurie Lawlor
C KIDS HISTORICAL LAW
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
C KIDS HISTORICAL MACL
As Far As I Can See by Kate McMullan
C KIDS HISTORICAL MCMU
Dear Levi: Letters from the Overland Trail by Elvira Woodruff
C KIDS HISTORICAL WOO
Bluestem by Frances Arrington
C TWEEN HISTORICAL ARR
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
C TWEEN HISTORICAL BRI
Prairie Songs by Pam Conrad
C TWEEN HISTORICAL CON
Alone by Alan Garinger
C TWEEN HISTORICAL GAR
Addie’s Dakota Winter by Laurie Lawlor
C TWEEN HISTORICAL LAW
Mr. Tucket by Gary Paulsen
C TWEEN HISTORICAL PAU
May B by Caroline Starr Rose
C TWEEN HISTORICAL ROS
Old Town in the Green Groves by Cynthia Rylant
C TWEEN HISTORICAL RYL
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