Old Town in the Green Groves: Laura Ingalls Wilder's Lost Little House Years

Little House on the Prairie

Laura Ingalls Wilder · 335 pages

When Laura Ingalls and her family leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, they head west for the open prairie skies of Kansas Territory. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the perfect spot for Pa to build them a new home. Soon they are planting and plowing, hunting wild ducks and turkeys, and gathering grass for their cows. But just when they begin to

All-of-a-Kind Family

Sydney Taylor · 189 pages

The life of a Jewish family with seven children growing up on New York's Lower East Side in the early twentieth century is the subject of this series. It includes All-of-a-Kind Family Downtown, All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown, Ella of All-of-a-Kind Family, and others.

Changes for Molly: A Winter Story

Valerie Tripp · 67 pages

Molly's excitement at performing in a big show is exceeded only by the announcement that her father is returning home from the war.

The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

Christopher Paul Curtis · 239 pages

The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.

Pat of Silver Bush

L.M. Montgomery · 329 pages

On Canada's Prince Edward Island in the 1920s, Pat loves her home at Silver Bush, but when changes come her friends Jingle and Bets and family servant Judy Plum help Pat to adjust.

Little House in Brookfield

Maria D. Wilkes · 298 pages

Meet Caroline Quiner, the little girl who would grow up to be Laura Ingalls's mother. Little House in Brookfield is the first in an ongoing series about the adventures of another girl from America's favorite pioneer family. It's 1845 in the bustling frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin. Five-year-old Caroline lives in a frame house at the edge of town with her mother, her grandmother, and her fi

The Town

Conrad Richter · 302 pages

The story of a pioneer family and the transition they have to make as urban areas begin to spread in the 1800s.

A Painted House

John Grisham · 465 pages

Using his own childhood for inspiration (and leaving the lawyers behind), bestselling author John Grisham sets A Painted House in 1950s rural Arkansas. During harvest time, together with hired Mexicans and hill people, seven-year-old Luke Chandler picks cotton on his family's rented 80 acres. But racial tension, a forbidden love affair, and murder cause Luke to grow up before he's ready.

The Moffats

Eleanor Estes · 242 pages

Relates the adventures and misadventures of the four Moffat children living with their widowed mother in a yellow house on New Dollar Street in the small town of Cranbury, Connecticut

Eight Cousins

Louisa May Alcott · 216 pages

Rose, a shy orphan, blossoms in the company of her spirited relatives when she takes up residence at "The Aunt Hill." This captivating novel by the author of Little Women offers readers of all ages endearing, inspiring stories about growing up, making friends, and facing life with kindness and courage.

The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips

Michael Morpurgo · 192 pages

When Boowie reads the diary that his grandmother sends him, he learns of her childhood in World War II England when American and British soldiers practiced for D-Day's invasion in the area of her home, and about her beloved cat, Adolphus Tip, and the cat's namesake.

What Katy Did

Susan Coolidge · 204 pages

Twelve-year-old Katie, living with her father, aunt, and five siblings in a small town in the 1870's, constantly makes and breaks resolutions to be a kind and generous person like her invalid Cousin Helen, but when she herself is bedridden after an accident, Katie finds her cousin's example very hard to follow.

How Green Was My Valley

Richard Llewellyn · 495 pages

**This is a story set in a south Wales coal mining valley and tells of a family striving to improve their lives through hard work, education and their non-conformist faith.** The main character is the youngest son, Huw Morgan and his life's journey through the difficulties associated with the mining industry and the awful risks involved in deep coal mining in the **mid nineteenth century**. The

Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill

Maud Hart Lovelace · 171 pages

The Great Brain

John D. Fitzgerald · 175 pages

Spencer's Mountain

Earl Hamner Jr. · 250 pages

***''Unforgettable...pure joy...'' Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird*** **The classic novel that inspired the television series "The Waltons," read by the series' star.** ***The Spencers are a hardy clan.*** Grandpa Spencer fathered nine boys who live in the shadow of the Grand Teton mountain that bears their name. Grandpa's son Clay married Olivia and had nine more kids, "all thor

A Long Way from Chicago

Richard Peck · 160 pages

What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice -- two city slickers from Chicago -- make their annual summer visits to Grandma Dowdel's seemingly sleepy Illinois town? August 1929: They see their first corpse, and he isn't resting easy. August 1930: The Cowgill boys terrorize the town, and Grandma fights back with a dead mouse and a bottle of milk. August 1931: Joey and Mary Alice help Grandma

Brown Girl Dreaming

Jacqueline Woodson · 368 pages

Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement.

Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself

Judy Blume · 298 pages

After 10-year-old Jewish Sally Jane Freedman's brother Douglas gets sick with a kidney infection, her family temporarily moves for a year after World War II.

Let the Circle Be Unbroken

Mildred D. Taylor · 394 pages

Let the Circle Be Unbroken is a story of a small Mississippi town in the 1930s, and the troubles that plague its black community. Picking up where its precursor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, leaves off, Mildred Taylor recounts the trials of this small community through the characters of the Logan family. More specifically, it focuses on the children of the family; Stacey, Cassie, Little Man and C

Little City by the Lake

Celia Wilkins · 309 pages

Fifteen-year-old Caroline Quiner, who will become the mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, moves to Milwaukee in 1855 to experience city life and attend school.

The Story of the Treasure Seekers

E. Nesbit · 144 pages

The six Bastable children try to restore their family's fortune using a variety of schemes taken from books, including finding buried treasure, rescuing someone from bandits, and starting a newspaper.

The Education of Little Tree

Forrest Carter · 216 pages

Forrest Carter recounts his childhood years, when he was raised by his Cherokee grandparents and imbued with the sense of communion between the Indians and their land.

Anna Hibiscus

Atinuke · 109 pages

Anna Hibiscus, who lives in Africa with her whole family, loves to splash in the sea and have parties for her aunties, but Anna would love to see snow.