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"Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to 'aging out' out of the foster care system. A community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse.... As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly learns that she and Vivian aren't as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds...
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Emigrants series volume 4
Borealis
Romanen om utvandrarna volume 4
Romanen om utvandrarna volume Book 4
Borealis
Romanen om utvandrarna volume 4
Romanen om utvandrarna volume Book 4
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English
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Final volume of the trilogy about Karl and Kristina Nilsson, who came from Sweden to establish a home in the forests of Minnesota in 1850.
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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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.
8) The settlers
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Series
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
xxix, 399 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson struggle to posper on their new farm in Minnesota during the 1850s. Kristina, coping with a feeling of loss for Sweden and the difficulty of adapting to a new land, draws strenth from a new found spirituality. Karl Oskar brings more land under cultivation and harvests rye, wheat, and corn. Together they survive blizzards, grasshopper plagues, wildcat speculation in currnecy, and self-righteous neighbors.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
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77 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Ten-year-old Kirsten is proud and excited when she finds a bee tree full of honey, one of the natural treasures of her Minnesota frontier world, but she exposes herself to great danger by trying to harvest the honey by herself.
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2002.
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217 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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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.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (1,260 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
All 24 episodes from season one are all complete, uncut and remastered, as well as the original, full-length pilot movie that introduced the Ingalls family to millions of viewers around the world. Relive all the heartwarming adventures from season one; from the arrival of Charles Ingalls and his family in Walnut Grove, through the building of a new home and friendships, to battling for their lives against a vicious blizzard.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Christmas at Plum Creek: The members of the Ingalls family share a heartwarming first Christmas in their new home, and Laura makes a personal sacrifice that captures the meaning of the holidays.
A Christmas They Never Forgot: The family waits out a snowstorm by remembering favorite Christmases from the past.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (1,080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The third season is filled with some of the show's most memorable moments. Whether the Ingalls family is caring for Charles's recently widowed father, facing an outbreak of mountain fever, helping a runaway child, or dealing with Laura's mischievous billy goat, they display the kindness, courage and good humor that their fans cherish, in 21 complete and uncut episodes.
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Follows Laura and Mary as they enter a new school in Walnut Grove. The three episodes included follow the Ingalls girls as they meet new classmates, prepare for a spring dance and perform plays with their newfound friends.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (1,260 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Relive the heartwarming moments when orphan Albert wins Charles' heart, when Mary conquers doubts about becoming a wife and mother, and when Laura and Albert help a dying friend realize his dream. All twenty four uncut episodes are restored and remastered for premium picture and sound to capture hearts once again.
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Pub. Date
[1988]
Physical Desc
67 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Kirsten is proud and excited when she finds a bee tree full of honey, one of the natural treasures of her Minnesota frontier world, but she exposes herself to great danger by trying to harvest the honey by herself.
20) Land of the buffalo bones: the diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, an English girl in Minnesota
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Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
221 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
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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