Fiction:
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In the New World: A Family in Two Centuries by Christa Holtei and illustrated by Gerda Raidt
In 1850 the Peterses and their two children leave Germany to move west to Nebraska where they start a farm outside Omaha. Later their descendants travel back to visit Germany. Mix of fact and fiction.
Reading age : 5 – 8 years
Publisher : Charlesbridge; Illustrated edition (March 10, 2015)
ISBN-10 : 1580896308
ISBN-13 : 978-1580896306
Worth by A. LaFaye
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When Nate’s leg is crushed at his 19th-century Nebraska homestead, John Worth, who is a boy taken off the orphan train, helps take up the slack.
- Reading age : 9 – 12 years
- Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers; 1st edition (June 1, 2006)
- ISBN-10 : 1416916245
- ISBN-13 : 978-0439913423
Nonfiction:
C is for Cornhusker: A Nebraska Alphabet by Rajean Luebs Shepherd and Sandy Appleoff
Learn how Arbor Day, Boys Town, and Kool-Aid® are related to the state of Nebraska.
- Reading age : 6 – 9 years
- Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press; 1st Printing edition (July 21, 2004)
- ISBN-10 : 158536147X
- ISBN-13 : 978-1585361472
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