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81) Prairie friends
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Betsy learns that a new family is coming to the Nebraska prairie, she hopes they have a girl who will be her friend
83) Day by day
Publisher
MVD Visual
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The untold story of the University of Nebraska football program. Crippled by controversy and tragedy, they defied all odds winning three national championships in four years. Includes both films: Day by day: the rise and Day by day: the dynasty.
Author
Series
Publisher
Emerald Prairie Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Ambitious Cassandra Sato traded her life in Hawai'i for a dream position at Morton College in rural Nebraska. She expected the Midwestern church casseroles, land-locked cornfields, and face-freezing winters would be her biggest challenges, but it's her job that's rapidly becoming a nightmare. A deaf student is dead and the investigation reveals a complicated trail of connections between campus food service, a local farmer's beef, and the science...
Author
Series
Pine Ridge portraits volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
"Historical novel set in Fort Robinson, Nebraska, during WWII. Romance is in the air on the prairie and it latches onto the hearts of a bitter sergeant, a lonely widow, and a broken POW. What seems to be a typical U.S. Army post proves to be anything but regimented daily routine"--Provided by publisher
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"On May 30, 2020, in Omaha, Nebraska, amid the protests that rocked our nation after George Floyd's death at the hands of police, thirty-eight-year-old white bar owner and Marine veteran Jake Gardner fatally shot James Scurlock, a twenty-two-year-old Black protester and young father. What followed were two investigations of Scurlock's death, one conducted by the white district attorney Don Kleine, who concluded that Gardner had legally acted in self-defense...
87) Elsie's bird
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Young Elsie must find a way to adapt to her new home on the Nebraska prairie after she and her father leave their comfortable city life in Boston
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Following her father's death from a disease that swept through her Nebraska town in 1881, teenaged Sarah Jane must find work to support herself and records in her diary her experiences as a young school teacher
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An illuminating deep dive into the making of Bruce Springsteen's most surprising album, Nebraska, revealing its pivotal role in Springsteen's career--from the New York Times bestselling author of Petty: The Biography. Without Nebraska, Bruce Springsteen might not be who he is today. The natural follow-up to Springsteen's hugely successful The River should have been the hit-packed album Born in the U.S.A, but instead, in 1982, he came out with Nebraska,...
Author
Series
Diviners volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
Led by a vision, the Diviners travel to Bountiful, Nebraska, where they must confront their greatest fears and learn to rely on one another in order to save the world from catastrophe.
New York City, 1927. The Diviners are in for the fight of their lives against the King of Crows and his Army of the Dead. With Sam missing, Evie in mourning, Theta's power growing unstable, and Memphis and Isaiah hunted by the Shadow Men, their only hope lies in Bountiful,...
94) Election
Publisher
Paramount Pictures Corporation
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Civics teacher Jim McAllister is worried: obnoxious, perennial overachiever Tracy Flick looks likely to win the student body presidency--she is running unopposed. Seeking to inject some democracy into the process, he persuades nice but dim football hero Paul Metzler to stand against her. This merely makes Tracy even more determined to win, and when Paul's alienated younger sister Tammy joins the race, leads her to use extreme measures to guarantee...
Author
Publisher
Audio Bookshelf
Pub. Date
p2009
Language
English
Description
When a tornado watch is issued one Tuesday evening in June, twelve-year-old Dan Hatch and his best friend, Arthur, don't think much of it. After all, tornado warnings are a way of life during the summer in Grand Island, Nebraska. But soon enough, the wind begins to howl and the lights and telephone stop working. Then the emergency siren starts to wail. Dan, his baby brother, and Arthur have only seconds to get to the basement before the monstrous...
Author
Publisher
G.K. Hall & Co
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
The glory days of the great Powder River Cheyenne were long past. Exiled into the barren, unforgiving Oklahoma Territory, they prepared to make one final stand. Little Wolf, last War Chief of the Cheyenne, vowed to return his people to their native land. All that stood in the way were the men of the brass command, a lonely outpost of the U.S. Cavalry at Fort Robinson, Nebraska...
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