Little House In The Big Woods
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
subjects: frontier and pioneer life, family life, wisconsin [X], wilder, laura ingalls, historical fiction, frontier and pioneer life fiction, family life fiction, large type books, large print books, family, families [X], compact discs, audiobooks, pioneering -, historical fiction
Bird Lake Moon
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
I, Emma Freke
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
subjects: eccentrics and eccentricities, family reunions, single-parent families, families [X], massachusetts, wisconsin [X]
Crandalls' Castle
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
subjects: ghosts, orphans, clairvoyance, cousins, stepfathers, wisconsin [X], diaries, family life, apparitions, families [X], children's audiobooks, ghost stories
The Year Of Billy Miller
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
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:
subjects: families [X], family life, autobiographical graphic novels, bildungsromans, comic books, strips, etc, wisconsin [X]
Little House In Brookfield
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
subjects: ingalls, caroline lake quiner, wilder, laura ingalls, frontier and pioneer life, family life, historical fiction, wisconsin [X], families [X]
Little Clearing In The Woods
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
subjects: ingalls, caroline lake quiner, wilder, laura ingalls, frontier and pioneer life, family life, historical fiction, wisconsin [X], family, families [X]
Blankets
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
lexile:
subjects: families [X], family life, autobiographical graphic novels, bildungsromans, comic books, strips, etc, wisconsin [X], love stores
I Gave My Heart To Know This
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:
Little House Treasury
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:
Summertime In The Big Woods
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
subjects: wilder, laura ingalls, family, family life, frontier and pioneer life, summer, wisconsin [X], families [X]
Going To Town
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
subjects: family, frontier and pioneer life, frontier and pioneer life -, wisconsin [X], families [X], family life
A Reliable Wife
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:
subjects: family secrets, marriage, large type books, large print books, families [X], family life, historical fiction, wisconsin [X], historical fiction
Ida B
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