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"In rural Iowa, life is both the planter and uprooter of dreams. As love, long delayed, springs to life in the heart of a young Swedish immigrant, one man struggles with his withered ambitions--and new blessings that could take their place if he would but allow them room."--Page 4 of cover.
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"Conflating her own childhood experiences with those of a celebrated Wagnerian soprano of her day, Willa Cather here introduces Thea Kronborg, a Scandinavian-American singer who rises from a one-story town in Colorado to the Metropolitan Opera House. Along the way she learns her own capacity for the rigorous demands of artistic excellence, and how few of her colleagues are willing to sacrifice ordinary vanities for exacting professional standards....
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Torie O'Shea mysteries volume 7
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English
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When genealogist Torie O'Shea gets an invitation from her favorite aunt, Sissy, to come and spend some time with her in Minnesota she jumps at the chance. She piles her husband and her father-in-law into the car, leaving her two daughters in the care of her mother back home in Missouri, and hits the road, looking forward to some relaxation and some family bonding. Once they arrive, Torie finds out that her aunt's invitation was not so innocent: Sissy...
4) O pioneers!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Cather presents the story of the Nebraska prairie. Alexandra Bergson, daughter of Swedish immigrant farmers, is devoted to the land and suffers the hardships of prairie life.
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Pleasant Co
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IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Ten-year-old Kirsten is proud and excited when she finds a bee tree full of honey, one of the natural treasures of her Minnesota frontier world, but she exposes herself to great danger by trying to harvest the honey by herself.
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Planting dreams volume Bk. 1, 1868-1869
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Butterfield Books
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English
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This is a fictionalized account of Charlotta Johnson's journey from Sweden to Kansas in 1868.--Pref.
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Planting dreams volume Bk. 2, 1869-1886
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Butterfield Books
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English
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This is a fictionalized account of Charlotta Johnson's life as she and her husband build a farmstead on the Kansas prairie.
15) Gold Rush winter
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Golden Books
Pub. Date
c2002
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IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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At the end of the nineteenth century, Swedish-Americans Klondy and her mother travel from South Dakota to Alaska to live with Klondy's father, a gold-miner who left for the mines when she was just a baby. Based on events in the life of Klondy Nelson.
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Carl Erik, a recent immigrant from Sweden, becomes the man of the house when his father and uncle go to work in a logging camp, and he learns many things about life in Minnesota while attending school, doing his chores, and trying to put meat on the table.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
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IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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While his friends prepare for college, Oscar decides his future is working with his grandfather on their food truck Hej Hej!, but when Oscar unexpectedly gets his first taste of adulthood he realizes his plans may be half-baked.
High school senior Oscar Olsson hates school, struggles to read, and wants nothing to do with college. He knows exactly what he wants: to run a food truck with Farfar, the Swedish grandfather who's raised him, selling rullekebab...
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Great Plains trilogy volume 2
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[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2001-?
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English
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Driven by talent and ambition, Thea Kronborg leaves behind everyone and everything to fulfill her dreams of becoming an opera singer. Yet even as she achieves ever greater heights of success, Thea's ambition drives her still further to her eventual debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, where she finally makes peace with what, and who, she has sacrificed for her career.
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