Driven by poverty in the 1860s, the Ytterhorn family travels from Norway to America for the promise of a better life under the U.S. Homestead Act.
Theirs is a long journey beset by tragedy, but with determination and love, they make their way, first by sailing ship, then by train, and finally by covered wagon, to the Dakota Territory to claim a homestead—and a new beginning—in the land of opportunity.
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SaleThis package is customizable! So the pricing on this package will vary depending on which books you include in the package. Please make your selection and see what the price is at the bottom of this page. Updated for the 2024 Christmas season! Do you have 8 - 12 year olds who are "too old" for the picture books in our Picture Book Advent Calendar? Well, we made a set for them too!
12 Days of Christmas Bundle
By: Various AuthorsFrom:$196.41Original price was: $196.41.$176.77Current price is: $176.77.By: Various AuthorsFrom:$196.41Original price was: $196.41.$176.77Current price is: $176.77. Select options Quick View -
Twins Afke and Evert have a particularly understanding teacher who decides to take his class on a winder skating trip in a nearby town. Evert and his buddies, shy Simon and loyal Afke all have their share of adventures. Everyone (Teacher most of all) breathes a happy sigh of relief upon arriving home safely after a very full day.Sku: 9781932350180
A Day on Skates
By: Hilda Van Stockum$26.90 -
The journal of a 14-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend.Sku: 9780689714191
A Gathering of Days
By: Joan W. Blos$11.99 -
Page-turning adventure as two cousins sail down the Bay of Fundy on a dangerous quest during the French-English conflict in 1755. Their loyalty is stretched by the Acadian tragedy on Canada’s eastern shores.Sku: 9781927474693
A Land Divided
By: John F. Hayes$8.99 -
Featuring a heroine with faith, courage, and a great deal of grit, this acclaimed historical fiction novel portrays the realities faced by three children hoping to find a new home in an unknown land.Sku: 9780064403337
A Lion to Guard Us
By: Clyde Robert Bulla$12.50 -
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With accurate historical information, this easy-to-understand book tells why and how the Constitution of the United States was created. A More Perfect Union includes a map and back matter with a table of dates and a summary of the Articles of the Constitution.Sku: 9780688101923
A More Perfect Union
By: Betsy Maestro$14.99 -
A concise look at the legendary Shoshone woman who led explorers Lewis and Clark on their route from the Dakotas to the Pacific Ocean.Sku: 9780823416653
A Picture Book of Sacagawea
By: David A. Adler$12.49 -
Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife to two kings, mother to two others, has been waiting in Heaven a long time -- eight centuries, more or less -- to be reunited with her second husband, Henry II of England. Finally, the day has come when Henry will be judged for admission...Sku: 9780689846243
A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
By: E.L. Konigsburg$11.99 -
The Newbery Medal-winning tale of an orphan boy whose dream of becoming a master potter leads to unforeseen adventure in ancient Korea.Sku: 9780547534268
A Single Shard
By: Linda Sue Park$13.50 -
[This book] tells the story of H.P. Scholte, a preacher in The Netherlands, who being persecuted for his faith in his own country, emigrated to the U.S.A., and there established a settlement in Pella, Iowa, in the midst of the vast undeveloped prairie. . . The greater part of the book is taken up in telling the stories of the immense hardships known after emigration. Interwoven with this story is an account of Scholte’s marriage and family life. . . It is a most heartwarming and instructive story. ~John E. Marshall in The Banner of TruthSku: 0921100019
A Stranger in a Strange Land
By: Leonara Scholte$11.95 -
G. A. Henty has a wonderful talent for combining history and fiction for children. In this thrilling adventure story, he transports young readers back to the early days of the American frontier with a narrative that's as educational as it is exciting. His rip-roaring story follows the exploits of Hugh Tunstall, a young English lad who leaves England for Texas, where he experiences, firsthand, the lawlessness of the Far West. Facing the challenges of life in an untamed wilderness, Hugh finds work on a cattle ranch, encounters hostile Indians, and chases kidnappers. The absorbing narrative also offers authentic accounts of mining camps, lumberjacking, cattle ranching, and trapping, with some riveting scenes of gunfights, wildfires, horse races, roundups, and daring rescues thrown in for good measure. A treat for adventure-loving readers everywhere, this rousing tale will be welcomed by Henty fans of all ages.Sku: 9780486452616
A Tale of the Western Plains
By: Henty, G. A.$23.00 -
This touching story focuses on a young Roman boy and his compassion for his captured Greek slave. Give your students an intimate look at the relationship of Greece to Rome and much of Roman life and culture. This is an excellent way to transition teaching from Greece to Rome.Sku: 9780977900077
A Triumph for Flavius
By: Caroline Dale Snedeker$17.95 -
Ten-year-old Flavius had almost everything a boy could wish for. His parents belonged to the Roman aristocracy, so they lived in a beautiful house almost as luxurious as a palace, on top of Palatine Hill. Flavius went to the finest school where he was treated like a young prince and he had a new personal slave or "pedagogue" to carry his schoolbooks. He also felt his horse was the best in Rome.Sku: 9798888180884
A Triumph for Flavius
By: Caroline Dale Snedeker$15.50 -
In 1761, a young girl was sold to the Wheatley family in Boston, who named her Phillis after the slave schooner that had carried her. Kidnapped from her home in Africa and shipped to America, she’d had everything taken from her-her family, her name, and her language. But Phillis had a passion to learn. Amid the tumult of the Revolutionary War, Phillis Wheatley became a poet and ultimately had a book of verse published, establishing herself as the first African- American woman poet this country had ever known.Sku: 9780763660918
A Voice of Her Own
By: Kathryn Lasky$9.50 -
From the Publisher: "A beautifully told story of young Abraham Lincoln's coming-of-age. "Drawn from the early chapters of Carl Sandburg's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, this is the story of Abraham Lincoln's childhood. Growing up poor on the family farm, Abe did chores, helped his father cut down trees, and expertly skinned animals and cured hides. As a young man, he became an avid reader. When he witnessed a slave auction while on a flatboat trip down the Mississippi, he was forever changed-and so was the future of America. This is the remarkable story of Lincoln's youth, early America, and the pioneer life that shaped one of our country's greatest presidents."Sku: 9780156026154
Abe Lincoln Grows Up
By: Carl Sandburg$11.99