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Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 4
Language
English
Description
Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.
Author
Publisher
Fitzroy Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Set on a small and struggling family dairy operation in southern Minnesota, The Complicated Calculus (and Cows) of Carl Paulsen follows fifteen-year-old Carl as he confronts his crush on Andy Olnan, a handsome and confident but secretive "city boy" recently transplanted to farm life from Minneapolis who may or may not share the same feelings. At the same time, Carl and his father clash over the future of their farm, a legacy of Carl's late mother:...
5) Horse camp
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Told in their separate voices, twelve-year-old twins Percy and Penny are excited to spend a summer riding horses on their Uncle Stretch's Minnesota spread, until they discover it is a pig farm.
8) Truest
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"Westlin Beck's summer is turned upside down when the Hart twins move to town: aggravating, intriguing, and quirky Silas and his mysteriously ill sister, Laurel"--
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
2022 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 4 & 5
Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
Books You May Have Missed 2022: Combined
Titles Worth Trying: Mystery [Grades 3-5]
Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
Books You May Have Missed 2022: Combined
Titles Worth Trying: Mystery [Grades 3-5]
Formats
Description
"Eleven-year-old Maizy Chen visits her estranged grandparents, who own and run a Chinese restaurant in Last Chance, Minnesota; as her visit lengthens, she makes unexpected discoveries about her family's history and herself"--
11) Guy in real life
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The lives of two Minnesota teenagers are intertwined through the world of role-playing games"--
13) Dancing Carl
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
As winter progresses, the strange man in the worn flight jacket dances frequently on the ice of the rink, expressing more with his movements than most people do with words.
14) The Big Crunch
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
June is starting at her sixth school in four years when she meets Wes, who has just broken up with a girlfriend, and although they do not share an instant or intense connection, attraction turns to love and they wonder where it will lead.
Author
Series
Enchantment Lake mysteries volume 1
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Francie, seventeen, leaves summer school and auditions in New York City for Enchantment Lake in the woods of northern Minnesota when her great-aunts call and ask for her help investigating a mystery that centers on a road no one wants built, and on the legendary treasure said to be under enchantment.
16) The brave
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A middle-grade novel about a boy with an OCD issue and his move to a reservation to live with his biological mother"--
17) North Woods girl
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"An admiring granddaughter hikes in all seasons with Grandma, the quintessential North Woods girl. Together they see squirrels gathering nuts, hear wood frogs peep, inhale piney scents, and choose the finest skipping stone"--
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In rural Minnesota in 1974, thirteen-year-old Pride Star, raised to be independent, must accept help from friends and neighbors to care for eleven-year-old Nightingale and six-year-old Baby when her grandfather is hospitalized with a brain infection.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Each member of Erik Sheepflattener's modern-day Viking-heritage family has a motto to live by. Erik is developing a motto he can truly believe in : AVOID STUFF. But when he and his older sister Brunhilde spend the summer with their rough-and-tumble cousins in Minnesota, axe-wielding Bru gets the idea to name and conquer all of Erik's fears."
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