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Little House In The Big Woods

author: Wilder, Laura Ingalls, Wilder, Laura
Follows a year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives and neighbors.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 162
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 930

Bird Lake Moon

author: Henkes, Kevin
Twelve-year-old Mitch, spending the summer with his grandparents at Bird Lake after his parents' separation, becomes friends with ten-year-old Spencer, who has returned with his family to the lake where his little brother drowned years earlier, and as the boys spend time together and their friendship grows, each of them begins to heal.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 45
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: divorce, grief, lakes, friendship, family, wisconsin [X], families [X]

I, Emma Freke

author: Atkinson, E. J
Growing up near Boston with her free-spirited mother and old-world grandfather, twelve-year-old Emma has always felt out of place but when she attends the family reunion her father's family holds annually in Wisconsin, she is in for some surprises.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750

Crandalls' Castle

author: Wright, Betty Ren
Charli's impulsive uncle, Will Crandall, decides to buy the town's abandoned, possibly haunted castle and fix it up as a bed-and-breakfast, but Charli and Sophia, a clairvoyant orphan who has come to stay with the Crandall family, know his plan is somehow dangerous.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 23
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670

The Year Of Billy Miller

author: Henkes, Kevin
Seven-year-old Billy Miller starts second grade with a bump on his head and a lot of worries, but by the end of the year he has developed good relationships with his teacher, his little sister, and his parents and has learned many important lessons.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 125
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 620

Blankets

author: Thompson, Craig
An autobiographical graphic novel based on the author's experiences growing up in a religious family in rural Wisconsin, describing his rivalry with his brother, and his experiences with first love.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:

Little House In Brookfield

author: Wilkes, Maria D, Wilkes, Maria
Young Caroline Quiner, who would grow up to become Laura Ingalls Wilder's mother, and her family survive their first year without Father in the frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 920

Little Clearing In The Woods

author: Wilkes, Maria D
Young Caroline Quiner, who would grow up to be Laura Ingalls Wilder's mother, and her family move to a new farm near Concord, Wisconsin.
FIC
year: 1998
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 890

Blankets

author: Thompson, Craig
An autobiographical graphic novel based on the author's experiences growing up in a religious family in rural Wisconsin, describing his rivalry with his brother, and his experiences with first love.
741.5
year: 2004
copies: 11
call number/section: 741.5
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I Gave My Heart To Know This

author: Baker, Ellen
Julia, suffering from a recent tragedy, visits the farmhouse in which her great-grandmother, Violet, once lived and uncovers secrets with consequences reaching fifty years forward about how Violet, her daughter Lena, and another woman named Grace, who all worked in a Wisconsin shipyard and had loved ones fighting in the war, were affected by World War II.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: families [X], wisconsin [X]

Little House Treasury

author: Wider, Laura Ingalls
Three favorite Little House novels gathered in one collection giving a firsthand picture of American pioneer life.
FIC
year: 1932
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: pioneers, families [X], frontier and pioneer life, wisconsin [X]

Summertime In The Big Woods

author: Wilder, Laura Ingalls, Graef, Renee
A little girl and her pioneer family spend a summer in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.
FIC
year: 1996
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 830

Going To Town

author: Wilder, Laura Ingalls
A little pioneer girl and her family, living in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, make their first trip into town to visit the general store.
FIC
year: 1932
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 600

A Reliable Wife

author: Goolrick, Robert
Wealthy businessman Ralph Truitt advertises for a reliable wife to make a home for him on his estate in rural Wisconsin in the early twentieth century and although he knows immediately that Catherine Land is not the woman she presented herself to be, he decides to marry her anyway in what becomes a risky arrangement for them both.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:

Ida B

author: Hannigan, Katherine
Fourth-grader Ida B spends many happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard in Wisconsin until her mother begins treatment for breast cancer and her parents must sell part of the orchard and send her to public school.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 900
subjects: families [X], schools, nature, sick, cancer, wisconsin [X]

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