Ask your librarian to pull books such as those listed below to
use as references during the unit. The designations P, I and J
refer to books which are primary, intermediate or junior level
materials.
- Fiction
- Anderson, J. Christmas on the Prairie.
1985. (P & I)
Anderson, Joan. Joshua's Westward Journey. 1987.
(P, I & J)
Coerr, E. The Josefina Story Quilt. 1986. (P)
Conrad, P. Prairie Songs. 1985. (I & J)
- DeFelice, C. Weasel. 1990. (I & J)
- George, Jean Craighead. One Day in the Prairie.
1986. (P)
- Goble, P. Death of the Iron Horse. 1987. (P &
I)
- Harvey, B. My Prairie Year: Based on the Diary of Elenore
Plaisted. 1986. (P & I)
- Lawlor, Laurie. Addie Across the Prairie. 1986.
(P & I)
- MacLachlan, P. Sarah, Plain and Tall. 1985.
(I)
- Moeri, L. Save Queen of Sheba. 1981. (I &
J)
- Sanders, S. R. Aurora Means Dawn. 1989. (P &
I)
- Turner, A. Grasshopper Summer. 1989. (I &
J)
Wilder, L. I. The Little House Books. 1973. (P &
I)
- Non-Fiction
- Fradin, Dennis. Pioneers. 1984.
(P)
- Freedman, Russell. Buffalo Hunt. 1988. (I)
- Freedman, R. Children of the Wild West. 1983.
(I & J)
- Freedman, R. Cowboys of the Wild West. 1985.
(I & J)
- Grimm, William. Indian Harvests. 1973. (I)
- Harvey, B. My Prairie Christmas. 1990. (P &
I)
- Laycock, George & Ellen. How the Settlers Lived.
1980. (I & J)
- Lerner, Carol. Seasons of the Tall Grass Prairie.
1980. (I & J)
- Levenson, Dorothy. Homesteaders and Indians.
1971. (I)
- Loeper, J. J. Going to School in 1876. 1984.
(P & I)
- Madson, John. Where the Sky Began - Land of the Tallgrass
Prairie. 1982. (J)
- Matthews, Leonard J. The Wild West in American History.
1989. (I)
- May, Julian. The Prairie Has an Endless Sky.
1972. (I)
- Rounds, Glen. The Prairie Schooners. 1968. (I)
- Rounds, Glen. The Treeless Plains. 1967. (I)
- Sabin, Francene. Pioneers. 1985. (P & I)
- Stein, R. Conrad. Illinois. 1987. (I & J)
- Stein, R. Conrad. The Story of the Homestead Act.
1978. (I)
- Stone, Lynn M. Ecozones - Prairies. 1989. (I
& J)
- Waldman, Carl. Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes.
1988. (I & J)
- Walker, B. M. The Little House Cookbook: Frontier Foods
from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Classic Stories. 1979. (P,
I & J)
- Poetry
- Fleischman, Paul. Joyful Noises.
1988. (P, I & J)
- Lewis, C. Long Ago in Oregon. 1987. (P, I &
J)
- Activity Books
- Blood, Charles. American Indian Games and Crafts.
1981. (P)
- Purdy, Susan and Sandak, Cass. North American Indians.
1982. (I)
- Teachers' Reference
- Runkel, Sylvan and Roosa, Dean. Wildflowers of the
Tall Grass Prairie. 1989.
- Stratton, Joanna L. Pioneer Women - Voices from the
Kansas Frontier. 1981.
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