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English
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Twelve-year-old Belle Martin and her family move to Mingo, Colorado, in 1910 when the U.S. government offers 320 acres of land free to homesteaders.
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English
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In 1882, ten-year-old Emma and her family, along with other Russian Jewish immigrants, arrive in Cotopaxi, Colorado, where they face inhospitable conditions as they attempt to start an agricultural colony, and lonely Emma is comforted by the horse whose life she saved.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Trina's family left Bohemia for a Colorado coal town to earn money to buy a farm, but by 1901 she doubts that either hard work or hoping will be enough, even after a strange fish seems to grant her sisters' wishes.
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Ruby and Maude adventures volume 2
Publisher
Filter Press, LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Trouble on the Tracks, the second Ruby and Maude Adventure book, returns readers to the Cripple Creek mining town of 1896. Ruby May Oliver and her donkey and best friend, Maude, find a new friend when a cat named Trouble entwines itself around Maudeś legs and Rubyś heart. Trouble and the adventurous eleven-year-olds Ruby and Maude try to stay out of trouble during the chaos following two fires in one week that have nearly destroyed the town. Can...