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  The Water Seeker

  by Kimberly Willis Holt

  Amos Kincaid is the son of a dowser – a person gifted in knowing how to “find” water deep in the ground.  As a young person, Amos doesn’t reveal his gift to others; he’s not sure he wants the burden.  But through his experiences growing up and crossing the Oregon Trail, Amos learns about life’s harsh realities, especially the pain in losing loved ones.  As he cares for those around him, Amos comes to accept his... (more)
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  Boston Jane: Book 3

  The Claim

  by Jennifer L. Holm

  Jane Peck is a nineteenth-century girl with a mind of her own and a handsome suitor who loves her for it. She's outwitted wild animals, vengeful ghosts, and a disloyal fiancé, but when her finishing school nemesis, Sally Biddle, invades the Washington Territory, Jane finds everything she holds dear threatened -- including her true love, a rakish sailor named Jehu. As the Biddles of Philadelphia charm their way... (more)
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  The Living: A Novel

  by Annie Dillard

  This New York Times bestselling novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard is a mesmerizing evocation of life in the Pacific Northwest during the last decades of the 19th century.
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  A Bride Most Begrudging

  by Deeanne Gist

  When Lady Constance Morrow finds herself held against her will aboard a ship bound for the American colonies—a ship filled with "tobacco brides" and felons—she is quite sure that as soon as she arrives she will find a reasonable man who will believe her father is an earl and send her back on the next ship to England. Instead she meets Drew O’Connor, a determined Colonial farmer who is nearly as headstrong as she... (more)
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  The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

  by Karen Cushman

  4 Hours 47 Minutes on 4 CDs. In the summer of 1849, Lucy Whipples mother packs up her household and her two young children, and leaves their home in Massachusetts for the gold fields of California. Moving is the last thing the outspoken twelve-year-old, Lucy, wants to do. Reaching California, the Whipples set up a crude boardinghouse, and Lucy is put to work washing, cleaning, and baking pies in the rough mining... (more)
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  Stop the Train

  by Geraldine McCaughrean

  Cissy Sissney and her family are staking their claim. Along with a handful of other entrepreneurs, they've stepped off the train into the brand-new town of Florence, Oklahoma, and started building a future. But the president of the railroad says no more trains will stop in Florence -- ever. Without the railroad, the town can't survive. So it's up to Cissy, her family, friends, and neighbors to stop the train... (more)
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  Little House: Book 1

  Little House in the Big Woods

  by Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Laura Ingalls's story begins in 1871 in a little log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Four-year-old Laura lives in the little house with her Pa, her Ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their trusty dog, Jack. Pioneer life is sometimes hard, since the family must grow or catch all their own food as they get ready for the cold winter. But it is also exciting as Laura and her folks celebrate... (more)
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  Boston Jane: Book 2

  Wilderness Days

  by Jennifer L. Holm

  "Remember -- you make your own luck." Abandoned in Washington Territory by her faithless fiancé, Jane Peck prepares to return home to Philadelphia -- only to learn that the life she once knew is no more. Lost and alone, Jane must make a new home for herself as the only pioneer woman in the primitive settlement of Shoalwater Bay. Armed with little more than her finishing-school education, Jane is left to survive... (more)
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  White Bird (Stepping Stone, paper)

  by Clyde Robert Bulla

  Set in 19th-century rural Virginia, this moving novel follows a backwoods boy as he runs away from home and his harsh guardian in search of a precious pet: a white crow. After many adventures, he returns home to take his first steps into adulthood. Originally published in 1967, this story has been newly revised by the author.
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  American Girl History Mysteries: Book 13

  Enemy in the Fort

  by Sarah Masters Buckey

  In 1754, with her own parents taken captive, twelve-year-old Rebecca must confront her fear and hatred of the Abenaki when a boy raised by members of that tribe is brought to the fort at Charleston, New Hampshire, just before a series of thefts occurs.
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  Copper Sunrise

  by Bryan Buchan

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  A Love to Last Forever (The Brides of Gallatin County, Book 2)

  by Tracie Peterson

  All Beth Gallatin has really wanted out of life is to settle down in one town, with one man, and raise a family. But with her father's roaming ways, she's always been denied that dream; instead, she found solace in reading romantic books. With her father's passing, she can, for the first time, dare to claim the rugged Montana frontier as her home. Nick Lassiter has loved Beth since she first came to town,... (more)
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  The Immigrants' Chronicles: Book 2

  The Journey of Pieter & Anna

  From The Netherlands to America

  by Helen DenBoer

  How can Pieter leave behind his dog and his best friend?"I just saw her again," Pieter said to Eizabeth. "The girl from the ship—she's hiding up on the roof." He had first noticed her the morning they left Troy on the canalboat bound for Buffalo. She had followed a large family of Netherlanders onto the boat, then turned away clutching a bulging green traveler's bag. Who was she—and why did she seem to... (more)
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  Ride the Wind

  by Lucia St. Clair Robson

  In 1836, when she was nine years old, Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanche Indians. This is the story of how she grew up with them, mastered their ways, married one of their leaders, and became, in every way, a Comanche woman. It is also the story of a proud and innocent people whose lives pulsed with the very heartbeat of the land. It is the story of a way of life that is gone forever....
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  Outlander: Book 6

  A Breath of Snow and Ashes

  by Diana Gabaldon

  Eagerly anticipated by her legions of fans, this sixth novel in Diana Gabaldon’s bestselling Outlander saga is a masterpiece of historical fiction from one of the most popular authors of our time. Since the initial publication of Outlander fifteen years ago, Diana Gabaldon’s New York Times bestselling saga has won the hearts of readers the world over — and sold more than twelve million books. Now, A Breath... (more)
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  Abercrombie Trail

  by Candace Simar

  Endlessly fascinating. . . . The ultimate I was there book. I have read many books about Scandinavians coming to America in the turbulent 1860s, but thanks to author Candace Simar, this is the first time I was ever transported from my easy chair right into the book to experience it with them. The images of courage, cruelty, intolerance, discovery, and simple pleasures have stayed with me. This is one book I won t... (more)
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  Uncharted Ways

  by Caroline Dale Snedeker

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  Little House: Book 2

  Little House on the Prairie

  by Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Meet Laura Ingalls . . .the little girl who would grow up to write the Little House books.When Pa Ingalls decides to sell the little log house, the family sets out for Indian country! They travel from Wisconsin to Kansas and when there, finally, Pa builds their little house on the prairie. Sometimes farm life is difficult, even dangerous, but Laura and the family are kept busy and are happy with the promise of... (more)
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  The Pilgrims of Plimoth (Aladdin Picture Books)

  by Marcia Sewall

  After an abundance of prayers and tears we made farewells at dockside and boarded our small ship. Our voyage across the Atlantic Ocean "began with a prosperous wind," but the sea soon became "sharp and violent" and storms howled about us. When the pilgrims set out for America, they brought with them a dream for the future. Sickness, hardship, and heartache stood in the way of that dream. But the pilgrims worked... (more)
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  The Backwoods of Canada: Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer

  by Catharine Parr Traill

  Originally published in 1836, this was one of the few books on frontier Canada to give details of the domestic economy of a settler’s life. Her target audience was the upper-class English immigrant. "It is not only the poor husbandmen and artisans, that move in vast bodies to the west, but it is the enterprising English capitalist, and the once affluent landholder, alarmed at the difficulties of establishing... (more)