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Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Meet Caroline Quiner, the little girl who would grow up to be Laura Ingalls's mother. Little House in Brookfield is the first in an ongoing series about the adventures of another girl from America's favorite pioneer family. It's 1845 in the bustling frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin. Five-year-old Caroline lives in a frame house at the edge of town with her mother, her grandmother, and her five brothers and sisters. Caroline's father was lost...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Meet Caroline Quiner, the little girl who would grow up to be Laura Ingalls' mother. Caroline watches eagerly as new buildings spring up overnight and more and more families move into the growing town of Brookfield, Wisconsin. There are all sorts of new, exciting things for Caroline to do! She marches in her first Independence Day parade, a circus comes to town, and new neighbors become special friends. But then the family has a chance to move to...
13) Bird Lake moon
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Publication Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Mitch and his mother are spending the summer with his grandparents at Bird Lake after his parents separate, and ten-year-old Spencer and his family have returned to the lake where Spencer's little brother drowned long ago, and as the boys become friends and spend time together, each of them begins to heal.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Publication Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Charli's impulsive uncle, Will Crandall, decides to buy the town's abandoned, possibly haunted castle and fix it up as a bed-and-breakfast, but Charli and Sophia, a clairvoyant orphan who has come to stay with the Crandall family, know his plan is somehow dangerous.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Publication Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her mother begins treatment for breast cancer and her parents must sell part of the orchard and send her to public school.
16) Brookfield days
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Publication Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
It's 1845, and Caroline Quiner lives in a little frame house in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Each day brings new adventures for Caroline as she helps Mother, Grandma, and her five brothers and sisters run the family farm.
17) The pumpkin war
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Childrens Books
Publication Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Billie enjoys summer on Wisconsin's Madeline Island, where she harvests honey, mucks llamas stalls, and grows a giant pumpkin, determined to reclaim her title in the annual pumpkin race.-- Provided by Publisher.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Publication Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When Esther's family moves to a farm during the Great Depression, she soon learns that there are things much more important than that her superstitious mother rarely shows her any affection.
19) I, Emma Freke
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Publication Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Growing up near Boston with her free-spirited mother and old-world grandfather, twelve-year-old Emma has always felt out of place but when she attends the family reunion her father's family holds annually in Wisconsin, she is in for some surprises.
Author
Series
Little house chapter book. Caroline volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
When Caroline Quiner and her family are forced to move from Brookfield further west, Caroline, who will become the mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, does her part as they settle in and make a new home.