Reading Ranger Booklist
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Look for these books at your local library!
A Pony for Jeremiah Robert H. Miller and Nneka Bennett
Dandelions Bunting and Greg Shed
If You Were a Pioneer on the Prairie Anne Kamma and James Watling
My Prairie Year Brett Harvey
One Room School Laurence P. Pringle and Barbara Garrison
Pioneer Girl Andrea Warren
Prairie Day Laura Ingalls Wilder and Renee Graef
Prairie Friends Nancy Smiler Levinson and Stacey Schuett
Sod Houses on the Great Plains Glen Rounds
The Log Cabin Quilt Ellen Howard and Ronald Himler
The Long Way to a New Land Joan Sandin
The Prairie Fire Marilynn Reynolds and Don Kilby
Tiger with Wings Barbara Esbensen and Mary Barrett Brown
Wagon Wheels Barbara Brenner and Don Bolognese |
Did You Know?
Under the Homestead Act, 270 million acres of land, or 10% of the nation, was given away. The only monetary payment for each 160 acre claim was an $18 filing fee.
-- Homestead National Monument of America
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