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Lexile/Reading Level
1190L - Recommended for 7-9 Grades

Genre/Category
Biographies | History | Nonfiction

Historical Time Period
Westward Expansion
Date
1800s
Topic
American History | Hardships | Journey | Pioneers
Geographic Region
United States - America
Award-Winning Book
Publisher's Weekly for Best Audio
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Oregon Trail

Author: Parkman, Francis

Keen observations and a graphic style characterize the author’s remarkable record of a vanishing frontier. Detailed accounts of the hardships experienced while traveling across mountains and prairies; vibrant portraits of emigrants and Western wildlife; and vivid descriptions of Indian life and culture. A classic of American frontier literature.

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Lexile/Reading Level
570L

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical | Picture Book

Historical Time Period
Westward Expansion
Topic
Death and Loss | Hardships | Pioneers
Geographic Region
Michigan | United States - America
Main Character
Girl(s)
Award-Winning Book
Christophers Book Awards
Format
Book

Log Cabin Quilt

Author: Howard, Ellen

A pioneer girl copes successfully with the loss of her mother and a difficult move.

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Lexile/Reading Level
680L

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Modern | Westward Expansion
Date
1800s
Topic
Babies | Hardships | Journey | Mormon Trail | Pioneers
Geographic Region
United States - America
Main Character
Girl(s)
Format
Book

Charlotte’s Rose

Author: Cannon, A. E.

I will carry that baby to Zion,” I shout at them, “just see if I don’t!”

Well! I did it! I have left them all quite speechless.

In 1856, 12-year-old Charlotte and her widowed father are members of a Welsh handcart company on the Mormon Trail, so poor they cannot afford wagons but must push carts from Iowa City to Utah. When a woman in the company dies giving birth, and her husband is too distraught to care for the baby girl, Charlotte grandly offers to care for the baby, whom she names Rose. But taking care of Rose turns out to be much harder than Charlotte expected. She’s stuck; she can’t give Rose back. As she struggles along the trail with the infant, she comes to love Rose, and to dream of life with “her” baby, even though Papa and others remind her that she will have to give Rose back to her father when they part ways at the end of the trail.

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Lexile/Reading Level
840L

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Colonial America | Westward Expansion
Date
1800s
Topic
Exploration | Lewis & Clark | Native Americans/Canadians | Scagawea
Geographic Region
United States - America
Main Character
Woman/Women
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Sacajawea

Author: Bruchac, Joseph

Young Sacajawea has been asked to join Lewis and Clark in their exploration of the American West. As a translator, peacemaker, caretaker, and guide, Sacajawea alone will make the historic journey of Lewis and Clark possible. This captivating novel, which is told in alternating points of view — by Sacajawea herself and by William Clark — provides an intimate glimpse into what it would have been like to witness firsthand this fascinating time in our history.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 6-10 Grades

Genre/Category
History | Nonfiction | Social Sciences

Historical Time Period
Westward Expansion
Date
1800s
Topic
Cowboys | Farms | Native Americans/Canadians
Geographic Region
United States - America
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Indians, Cowboys, and Farmers: 1865 – 1910 (The Drama of American History Series)

Author: Collier, James and ChristopherPart of a Series: Drama of American History

Indians, Cowboys, and Farmers discusses the settling of the area between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains and the conflicting interests of the different groups involved–the Indians, cowboys, farmers, sheepherders, and railroad barons. The authors discuss the effect of the American policy of westward expansion on the Indian population, the rise and fall of the “Cattle Kingdom,” and the importance of cross-country transportation. The text is enhanced with maps, photographs, and images of historic art & artifacts.

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Lexile/Reading Level
970L

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical | Realistic | Uncategorized

Historical Time Period
Westward Expansion
Date
1800s
Topic
Anishinaabeg, Ojibwe (also Ojibwa), Algonquin, or Chippewa | Culture and Traditions | Native Americans/Canadians
Geographic Region
Minnesota | United States - America
Main Character
Girl(s)
Award-Winning Book
American Indian Youth Literature Award | National Book Award for Young people | Nominee | Other Awards
Format
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Birchbark House, The (The Birchbark House #1)

Author: Erdrich, LouisePart of a Series: Birchbark House

Nineteenth-century American pioneer life was introduced to thousands of young readers by Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved Little House books. With The Birchbark House, award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s first novel for young readers, this same slice of history is seen through the eyes of the spirited, 7-year-old Ojibwa girl Omakayas, or Little Frog, so named because her first step was a hop. The sole survivor of a smallpox epidemic on Spirit Island, Omakayas, then only a baby girl, was rescued by a fearless woman named Tallow and welcomed into an Ojibwa family on Lake Superior’s Madeline Island, the Island of the Golden-Breasted Woodpecker. We follow Omakayas and her adopted family through a cycle of four seasons in 1847, including the winter, when a historically documented outbreak of smallpox overtook the island.
Readers will be riveted by the daily life of this Native American family, in which tanning moose hides, picking berries, and scaring crows from the cornfield are as commonplace as encounters with bear cubs and fireside ghost stories. Erdrich–a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwa–spoke to Ojibwa elders about the spirit and significance of Madeline Island, read letters from travelers, and even spent time with her own children on the island, observing their reactions to woods, stones, crayfish, bear, and deer. The author’s softly hewn pencil drawings infuse life and authenticity to her poetic, exquisitely wrought narrative. Omakayas is an intense, strong, likable character to whom young readers will fully relate–from her mixed emotions about her siblings, to her discovery of her unique talents, to her devotion to her pet crow Andeg, to her budding understanding of death, life, and her role in the natural world.

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Lexile/Reading Level
740L

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
American West | Westward Expansion
Date
1800s
Topic
Native Americans/Canadians | Scagawea | Shoshone
Geographic Region
United States - America
Award-Winning Book
Nominee | Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award | Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction
Format
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Streams to the River, River to the Sea

Author: O'Dell, Scott

Scagawea, a Shoshone Indian, guided and interpreted for explorers Lewis and Clarke as they traveled up the Mississippi, but she had adventures long before that one, like the time she was captured by the Minnetarees, and taken away from her family and everything that she knew and loved….

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