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English
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Ted Hammond, the only sixth grader in his small Nebraska town's one-room schoolhouse, searches for clues to the disappearance of a homeless family. Ted Hammond learns that in a very small town, there's no such thing as an isolated event. And the solution of one mystery is often the beginning of another.
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English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Perry was born and raised by his mom at the Blue River Co-ed Correctional Facility in tiny Surprise, Nebraska. His mom is a resident on Cell Block C, and so far Warden Daugherty has made it possible for them to be together. That is, until a new district attorney discovers the truth--and Perry is removed from the facility and forced into a foster home. When Perry moves to the "outside" world, he feels trapped. Desperate to be reunited...
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Language
English
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Description
When her aunt gets into a car accident, Anise is forced to leave her friends and surfing behind to spend the summer in Nebraska to help care for her cousins, and by doing so, forms familial bonds and new friendships that challenge her feelings of abandonment by her mother.
7) Elsie's bird
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Young Elsie must find a way to adapt to her new home on the Nebraska prairie after she and her father leave their comfortable city life in Boston.
8) Worth
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Language
English
Description
After breaking his leg, eleven-year-old Nate feels useless because he cannot work on the family farm in nineteenth-century Nebraska, so when his father brings home an orphan boy to help with the chores, Nate feels even worse.
10) Dandelions
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
©1995
Language
English
Description
Zoe and her family find strength in each other as they make a new home in the Nebraska territory.
11) The road home
Author
Language
English
Description
A man who was offered for adoption at birth because he was an illegitimate child searches for his mother in this novel on a Nebraska family. In the process, Nelse Carlson, 30, discovers he is the grandson of a powerful rancher.
13) Lucy Gayheart
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Language
English
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Description
A young girl in an American village goes to Chicago to study music, falls in love with a middle-aged singer, knows a brief moment of contentment, and then the pain of a separation that is final.
14) Prairie songs
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Language
English
Description
Louisa's life in a loving pioneer family on the Nebraska prairie is altered by the arrival of a new doctor and his beautiful, tragically frail wife.
15) Gratefully yours
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
In 1923, nine-year-old Hattie rides the Orphan Train from New York to Nebraska where she must adjust to a strange new life with a farmer and his wife, who is despondent over the loss of her two children.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Auditioning for a New York City performing arts high school could help Etta escape from her Nebraska all-girl school, where she's not gay enough for her former friends, not sick enough for her eating disorders group, and not thin enough for ballet--but it may also mean real friendships.
17) My Daniel
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
Ellie and Stevie learn about a family legacy when their grandmother tells them stories of her brother's historical quest for dinosaur bones on their Nebraska farm.
18) Hank's story
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
In 1923, twelve-year-old Hank and his older brother Peter travel on the Orphan Train from New York to Nebraska where they find a miserable existence living on a farm with a disagreeable and abusive couple whose only use for the brothers is as unpaid help.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
For sixteen-year-old Lana life is often difficult, with a flirtatious foster father, an ice queen foster mother, a houseful of special needs children to care for, and bullies harrassing her, until the day she ventures into an antique shop and buys a drawing set that may change her life.
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