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• Contributor's Form (list #103)

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• Alabama
  • 13 ALABAMA GHOSTS AND JEFFREY, by Katherine Tucker Windham
  • The Alabama Angels Barwick, Mary
  • The Alabama Angels in Anywhere, L.A.(lower Alabama) Barwick, Mary
  • A Black Elephant With a Brown Ear (In Alabama) (In Alabama and Other Tales) by Barbara Ann Porte, Bill Traylor (Illustrator)
  • Booker T. Washington, Educator of Hand, Head and Heart by Graham.
  • Charm of the Bear Claw Necklace Searcy, Margaret
  • A Christmas Memory Capote, Truman
  • Crazy in Alabama Childress, Mark
  • George Carver, Boy Scientist by Stevenson
  • I Am Rosa Parks (Dial Easy-To-Read) by Rosa Parks, James Haskins
  • Ikwa of the Mound Builder Indians Searcy, Margaret
  • Judy's Journey by Lenski
  • Mighty Close To Heaven/Faye Gibbons
  • One Big Front Porch/ Katherine Tucker Windham.
  • Story of My Life by Helen Keller
  • To Kill a Mockingbird Lee, Harper
  • Run Away Home by McKissack
  • The Watsons go to Birmingham 1963, by Christopher Paul Curtis.
  • Wiley and the Hairy Man by Judy Sierra. The illustrations by Brian Pinkney are beautiful. Another version of the story is done by Molly Bang.
• Alaska
  • Alaska Cat by Joann Roe
  • Alaska Harvest by Pedersen
  • Alaska's Three Bears/Shelly Gill
  • Amorak by Tim Jessell
  • Baby in a Basket by Gloria Rand
  • The Bite of the Gold Bug : A Story of the Alaskan Gold Rush (Once upon America) by Barthe Declements
  • The Bravest Dog Ever : The True Story of Balto (Step into Reading/Step 2 Book) by Natalie Standiford
  • Call of the Wild. Jack London
  • Caribou Journey by Debbie Miller.
  • Circle of Thanks by Susi L. Fowler
  • Count Alaska's Colors by Shelley Gill
  • The Eagle's Gift by Rafe Martin
  • GENTLE BEN by Morey
  • GOING FOR THE BIG ONE by Petersen
  • JULIE by George
  • JULIE OF THE WOLVES by George
  • Kiana's Iditarod by Shelley Gill
  • Polar Bear Journey by Debbie Miller.
  • PRINCE WILLIAM by Rand
  • Raven and River by Nancy White Carlstrom
  • Reindeer Trail by Hader
  • THE SECRET MOOSE by Rogers
  • The Sleeping Lady by Ann Dixon.
  • WATER SKY ALASKA
  • When the Wind Blows Hard by Orenstein
  • The Wind is Not a River by Arnold Griese
  • Winter Dance by Gary Paulsen (iditarod)
• Arizona:
  • Brighty of the Grand Canyon by Henry
  • Geronimo, the Last Apache War Chief by Wyatt
  • Lion Hound by Kjelgaard
  • Me, Cholay, & Co. Don Schellie.
  • The Righteous Revenge of Artemis Bonner Walter Dean Myers Pub: Harper Collins 1992
  • Sing Down the Rain by Judy Moreillon (who is a school librarian). It is set on the Tohono O'Odam reservation right outside Tucson. 
  • Waterless Mountain by Armer
• Arkansas
  • Cotton in My Sack by Lenski
  • Phillip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Betty Greene
  • Razor Backs are Really Hogs by Charlie May Simon
  • Toby and Granny and Toby Alone by Robbie Branscum
• California
  • Blue Willow by Gates
  • By the Great Horn Spoon by Fleischmann
  • CAT RUNNING by Snyder;
  • Chicken Sunday by Polacco
  • Eight Mules From Monterey (author?) 
  • Island of the Blue Dolphins by O'Dell
  • The Mission Bell by Politi
  • Patty Reed's Doll by Rachel K.
  • Secret Valley by Bulla
  • Song of the Swallows by Politi
  • Tikvah Means Hope by Polacco
• Colorado -
  • Dipper of Copper Creek by George
  • Little Britches by Moody
  • The Mystery of the Black Diamonds by Whitney
• Connecticut
  • The Babysitters Club books by Martin
  • Eli Whitney & the Machine Age by Hays
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe: Conntecticut Girl by Widdemer
  • Junebug by Alice Mead
  • The Moffats by Estes
  • My brother Sam is dead
  • Rabbit Hill by Lawson
  • Witch of Blackbird Pond by Speare
• Delaware
  • Come Morning by Leslie Davis Guccione, a graduate of Wilmington Friends School, is set in Wilmington and the nearby PA countryside. The plot revolves around the help given runaway slaves by free blacks and Quakers. When 12-year-old Free's father is taken captive by bountyhunters, he is left to ferry the runaways across the border to freedom, a job much more challenging than he had ever anticipated. 
  • Elin's Amerika by De Angeli
• Florida
  • Arly by ?? (migrants in Fla. in 1930's)
  • Hazel Rye by Vera Cleaver
  • The Kissimmee Kid by Vera Cleaver
  • Mary McLeod Bethune by Greenfield
  • Missing Gator of Gumbo Limbo by Jean Craighead George 
  • Moon Lake Angel by Vera Cleaver
  • Shadow's on the Water by Katherine Lasky
  • Strawberry Girl by Lenski
  • The Yearling by Rawlings
• Georgia
  • BIG WORDS by Engel;
  • Blackberry Summer. Doris Buchanan Smith
  • Christmas with Ida Early by Burch
  • Georgia Music by Stevenson
  • IDA EARLY series by Burch
  • Judy's Journey by Lenski
  • A MONTH OF SEVEN DAYS by Climo;
  • Queenie Robert Burch
  • Sequoyah: Leader of the Cherokees by Marriott
  • Skinny by Burch
  • TURN HOMEWARD HANNALEE by Beatty;
  • The Year the Lights Came On by Terry Kay
• Hawaii
  • Captain Cook Explores the South Seas by Sperry
  • Hawaii's Queen, Liliuokalini by Stone
  • Under the Blood Red Sun by Graham Salisbury
• Idaho
  • All Over Town by Brink
  • Blue Chimney by Bond
  • Chief Joseph: War Chief of the Nez Perce by Davis
• Illinois
  • America's Abraham Licoln by McNeer
  • AbeLincoln Grows up or Prairie town boy by Carl Sandburg
  • Across Five Aprils Irene Hunt
  • CASSIE'S JOURNEY by Harvey (this one starts in Illinois, where Cassie's family joins a wagon train);
  • The Coming of the Mormons by Kjelgaard
  • On My Honor Marion Bauer Two boys take off beyond their parents' limits. One dies in an Illinois River, and the friend has to deal with the guilt of his loss.
  • Running for Our Lives by Glennette Tilley Turner is about escaping slaves and the Undergrounsd RR
  • U.S. Grant, Young Horseman by Stevenson
• Indiana
  • The Bears of Blue River by Majors
  • A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton Porter
• Iowa
  • Beetles Toasted Lightly by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
  • Corn Farm Boy by Lenski
  • Princess in a Pigpen by Jane Resh Thomas
  • Switcharound by Lois Lowry
• Kansas
  • Ameila Earhart by Howe
  • Jim Dandy by ? (historical fiction)
  • Little House on the Prairie by Wilder
  • Rifles for Watie by Keith
  • The Sod House by Coatsworth
• Kentucky
  • Abraham Lincoln by Judson
  • Black Stallion's Filly by Farley
  • Born to Trot by Henry
  • Daniel Boone by Daugherty
  • A Penny's Worth of Character by Stuart
• Louisiana
  • Andy Jackson, Boy Soldier by Stevenson
  • Bayou Boy by Lattimore
  • Bayou Suzette by Lenski
  • Bill Wallace's Blackwater Swamp is set in the bayou and is a wonderful book. Students love it!
  • Empty Schoolhouse by Carlson
  • The ghost of Bayou Tigre by Mary Alice Fontenot. The story of a young girl in South Louisiana who is visiting relatives in the country and learns many of the customs particular to this area.
  • The Talking Eggs by San Souci
• Maine
  • Alice-all-by-Herself by Coatsworth
  • BLUEBERRIES FOR SAL by McCloskey;
  • Daddles by Sawyer
  • Don Fendler: Lost on a Mountain in Maine by Don Fendler
  • Grass and Sky by Lisa Fraustino is set at a camp on a lake in northern Maine. It deals with environmental issues as well as family communication between generations.
  • ISLAND BOY. by Barbara Cooney
  • Look for Me by Moonlight_ by Mary Downing Hahn takes place at an inn on the coast. This is a great story about a girl who moves to Maine to live with her father and stepmother. They run an inn on the coast of Maine. It is winter and desolate and there are no visitors at the inn - until a dark, entrancing and mysterious stranger arrives who turns out to be a vampire! It's a great story!
  • MISS RUMPHIUS, by Barbara Cooney
  • The Original Freddie Ackerman_ by Hadley Irwin is set on Deer Isle? Or Blue Isle?
  • A PENNY FOR A HUNDRED by Ethel Pochocki
  • A SEAL CALLED ANDRE by Lew Dietz (w/Harry Goodridge);
  • SIGN OF THE BEAVER by Speare;
  • THE STORY OF ANDRE by Lew Dietz
  • That Jud by Bragdon
  • TIME OF WONDER BURT DOW: DEEP-WATER MAN, ONE MORNING IN MAINE by McCloskey; Donn Fendler: Lost on a mountain in Maine. As told to Joseph B. Egan ISBN 0912274603 This is a true story of a boy who was lost on Katahdin in 1939 for 9 days.
  • WILD FOX (winner of the annual Lupine Award, which was created in honor of Barbara Cooney's Miss Rumphius); by Cherie Mason
  • WINTER BARN by Parnall;
  • WORRY WEEK by Lindbergh
• Maryland
  • Cassie: The Girl with the Hero's Heart that is historical fiction about a Maryland farm girl living minutes from Antietam, Maryland during the Civil War. It was written by the girl's distant relative, author Myrtle Long Haldeman. Publisher:Review and Herald Publishing Association Hagerstown, Md.21740 Date:1997 Grade Level: High 4th and up
  • Crazy Lady by Conly
  • Francis Scott Key, Poet & Patriot by Patterson
  • HEY-EY-EY, LOCK, ADVENTURE ON THE C&O CANAL by Fradin
  • Schoolbell in the Valley by Carlson
  • The Star-Spangled Banner by Swanson
• Massachusetts
  • Alexander Graham Bell by Montgomery
  • Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Latham
  • Johnny Tremain by Forbes
  • She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head by Lasky
• Michigan
  • Copper-Toed Boots by DeAngeli
  • Henry Ford, Boy with Ideas by Aird
  • My Rotten Red-Headed Older Brother - P. Polacco
  • Next Spring an Oriole. Gloria Whelan reading level (2.0-2.5?) They are set in pioneer days.
  • Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling
• Minnesota
  • Antler, Bear, Canoe Bowen, Betsy -
  • BETSY-TACY, BETSY, TACY, AND TIB by Maud Hart Lovelace. Books set in a small town in the early 20th century.
  • Courage at Indian Deep Jane Resh Thomas
  • A Cry in the Night Mary Higgins Clark novel set in Minnesota
  • Grand Opening Jon Hassler
  • Jemmy, Four Miles to Pinecone Hassler, John
  • KIRSTEN series by Shaw;
  • LADDER TO THE SKY: HOW THE GIFT OF HEALING CAME TO THE OJIBWAY NATION which is a 32-pager with pictures.
  • The Mayo Brothers by Clapesattle
  • Minn of the Mississippi by ?
  • ON THE BANKS OF PLUM CREEK by Wilder;
  • Six Miles to Pinecone (YA) Jon Hassler
  • Sod House Winter by Judson
  • STRIKING OUT by Will Weaver For grades 5 and up set in northern Minnesota.
  • A Taste of Smoke Marion Dane Bauer
  • Tracker Gary Paulsen.
  • Tracks in the Northwoods Barbara Esbenson
  • The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen
• Mississippi
  • THE FRIENDSHIP
  • Good By My Lady by James Street
  • Good Old Boy by Willie Morris
  • LET THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN
  • Mississippi Bridge by Mildred Taylor
  • MISSISSIPPI POSSUM by Miles
  • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry; by Mildred Taylor
  • Song of the Trees;
• Missouri
  • America's Mark Twain by McNeer
  • Houseboat Girl by Lenski
  • Huckleberry Finn & Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
  • Katie John by Calhoun
  • On the Way Home by Wilder
  • The Orphan Train Quartet
• Montana
  • Jim Bridger, Greatest of the Mtn. Men by Garst
  • Custer's Last Stand by Reynolds
• Nebraska
  • Dandelions by Eve Bunting
  • The Divide by Michael Bedard
  • Febold Feboldson by Ariane Dewey
  • Gratefully Yours by Jane Buchanan
  • My Daniel by Pam Conrad
  • Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman (about Grand Island, NE tornado -1980)
  • An Orphan for Nebraska by Charlene Joy Talbot
  • Prairie Songs by Pam Conrad
  • The Tree House at Seven Oaks by Bothwell
  • Willa by Ruth Franchere
• Nevada
  • Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep. This story is about a Chinese immigrant who works on the transcontinental railroad in Nevada.
  • Mail Riders, Paul Revere to Pony Express by McCall
  • Silver Hills by Montgomery
• New Hampshire
  • Amos Fortune, Free Man by Yates
  • The Enormous Egg by Butterworth
  • Gathering of Days by Joan Bloss.
  • Hannah's Fancy Notions, by Pat Ross.
  • Lucy's Christmas, by Donald Hall (about his grandmother's girlhood in Danbury);
  • Lucy's Summer by Donald Hall (about his grandmother's girlhood in Danbury);
  • MISS HICKORY by Bailey;
  • Old Home Day, by Donald Hall, w/ pictures by the McCully who did the Caldecott-winning Mirette ( a must-have for the library!)
  • Ox-Cart Man by D. Hall; also a picture book about his boyhood summers in the early '40's on his grandmother's NH farm --can't remember exact title);
  • Pianna, by Mary Lyn Ray;
• New Jersey
  • Henry Reed's Babysitting Service by Robertson
  • Jared's Island by DeAngeli
  • Make a Wish Molly by Barbara Cohen
  • Molly's Pilgrim by Barbara Cohen
  • Spook House by Mary-Claire Helldorfer
  • This time, Tempe Wick by Gauch is set in NJ, based on a real life spunky New Jersey girl during the Revolution, who hid her horse in her bedroom from both the Americans and the British.
• New Mexico
  • American Girl Series -- Josefina stories
  • AND NOW MIGUEL by Krumgold;
  • Billy by Laura Roybal. This a story about a teenager named Billy who lives in New Mexico with his father and discovers that he was actually kidnapped by his father from his adoptive parents.
  • Farolitos of Christmas by Rudolfo Anaya;
  • Grandmother's Adobe Dollhouse by Marylou Smith
  • Kokopelli's Flute by Will Hobbs.the main character discovering an old flute in a cliff dwelling. Through its power he discovers experience with ancient Native American magic.
  • The one who came back by Joann Mazzio This is the story of two best friends who go hiking in the mountains of New Mexico and only one of them returns. There is much speculation as to what happened to the other boy and the one who came back is blamed for his disappearance.
  • Paco's Miracle by Clark
• New York State
  • Adventures of Taxi Dog by baracca
  • Anastasia series by Lowery
  • Annie's Choice by Clara Gillow Clark (growingup in the 20's in rural NY) Cricket in Times Square by Selden
  • From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by Elaine Konisburg
  • In the Year of the Boar & Jackie Robinson by Lord
  • Indian Captive: the Story of Mary Jemison by Lenski
  • It's Like This, Cat by Neville
  • Leatherstocking Tales by Cooper
  • Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle by Irving
  • Lyle the Crocodile series by Waber
  • The Matchlock Gun by Edmonds
  • My Side of the Mountain by George
  • Pamela's First Musical by Wasserstein
  • Rip Van Winkle
  • Tar Beach by Ringold
  • View from Sunday by Konigsburg
  • We Lived in the Almont by Clymer
  • Young Man in a Hurry by Latham
• North Carolina
  • Daniel Boone by Daugherty
  • Sequoyah, Cherokee Hero by Oppenheim
  • Tough Enough's Trip by Carroll
  • Virginia Dare, Mystery Girl by Stevenson
• North Dakota
  • Beyond the Bedroom Wall by Larry Woiwode; Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1975 (novel about the lives of three generations of the Neumiller family in North Dakota and Illinois areas);
  • The Bones of Plenty by Lois Phillips Hudson; Minnesota Historical Society Press; 1984 (absorbing novel about a proud, independent North Dakota wheat-farming family and its struggles during the Depression);
  • Boots and Saddles by Mrs. Elizabeth Custer; Oklahoma Press, 1961(pro-Custer account of life in Dakota Territory by Custer's wife who describes life at Ft. Abraham Lincoln);
  • Boy From Johnny Butte; by Erling Rolfsrud
  • BY THE SHORES OF SILVER LAKE by Wilder;
  • The Checkered Years by Mary Dodge Woodward; Cass Co. Historical Society; ND (diaries of the Bonanza Farms of early ND) American Daughter by Era Bell Thompson; Chicago Press; 1946 (autobiography devoted mostly to her ND experience as a minority)
  • Gopher Tails for Papa; Lanterns Over the Prairies--Books I and II;
  • High Prairie by Havighurst
  • The Lawrence Welk Story by A. Govoni; Simon & Schuster; 1966(young adult nonfiction about Welk's life);
  • Marquis de Mores: Emperor of the Bad Lands by Donald Dresden; U of Oklahoma Press; 1970;
  • Medora by Zdena Trinka; First Award Books; 1948 (about the Marquis de Mores. Trinka is one of ND's most noted and famous authors.)
  • Out Where the West Begins by Zdena Trinka;
  • Pioneer Company; 1920. (early romantic history of ND);
  • Prairie School by Lois Lenski; J.B. Lippincott Co; 1951 (story of the Great Blizzard of 1949);
  • Reapers of the Dust: A Prairie Chronicle by Lois Phillips Hudson; Little, Brown; 1964 (short stories);
  • Sacagawea: Indian Guide by Wyatt Blassingame published by Garrard Publising Co., 1965.
  • The Snowbird by Patricia Calvert; New American Library; 1982. (One of 1980's Best Books for Young Adults chosen by the American Library Assn. This book is set in Dakota Territory in 1883 and involves the relationship between an orphaned teenager and her silverwhite foal, Snowbird.
  • Stone Johnny School; by Erling Rolfsrud
  • Teddy, Saga of the Badlands by Zdena Trinka; International Books;1958 (period of Theodore Roosevelt's life spent in ND);
  • The Tiger-Lily Year. by Erling Rolfsrud and published by Lantern Books in Alexandria, MN.
  • Under This Roof by Borghild Dahl; Dutton; 1961 (about a Norwegian ND prairie family in which a young girl must act as head of the household after the mother dies.)
  • White Buffalo by Lyla Hoffine; Longmans, Green & Co; 1939 (story about the Teton Sioux);
  • Wings Over Alaska by Edward Herron; Englewood Cliffs; 1959 (biography of Carl Ben Eielson who soared to fame as a pioneer of Alaskan aviation and air mail service);
•  Oklahoma
  • Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls. Story is set during the Depression and tells from a boy's earnest desire to obtain two hunting dogs to the responsiblity and care they give each other.
• Ohio
  • Aurora Means Dawn by Scott Russell Sanders
  • BELLS OF CHRISTMAS by Hamilton;
  • The Borning Room by Paul Fleischman
  • Dr. Gravity by Dennis Haseley
  • Homer Price by McCloskey
  • The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton
  • Lentil by McCloskey
  • M.C. Higgins the great by Virginia Hamilton;
  • The Story of Johnny Appleseed by Aliki
  • Tecumseh, Shawnee War Chief by Fleishman
  • Walk two moons by Creech. Story starts in Ohio. Out of the storm by Patricia Willis;
  • Warm as Wool by Scott Russell Sanders
  • Weasel by Cynthia De Felice;
• Oklahoma
  • Boom Town Boy by Lenski
  • Magnificent House of Man Alone by Rushmore
  • Sequoyah, Cherokee Hero by Oppenheim
  • Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls
• Oregon
  • Avi's The Barn;
  • most of Beverly Cleary's books (Ramona and Henry live on Klickitat St. in Portland);
  • Marcus & Narcissa Whitman by Place
  • Treasure Mountain by Lampman
• Pennsylvania
  • American Girl Series -- Kirsten stories
  • BEYOND THE DIVIDE by Lasky. Starts in Pa in 1849, with an Amish girl who leaves behind the rest of her family to go west with her father who
  • Brady by Fritz
  • The Bread Sister of Sinking Creek by Robin Moore (Pennslyvania settlers);
  • The Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz;
  • The Cherry Tree Buck by Robin Moore (animal stories from Central PA);
  • I am Regina by Sally Keehn (settler taken captive by Native Americans);
  • JUST PLAIN FANCY by Polacca. An Amish girl is horrifies when a hen egg hatches into a fancy bird.
  • Maggie Among the Seneca by Robin Moore (same idea);
  • Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (set in the Philadelphia area);
  • Miracles on Maple Hill by Sorensen
  • Night Journeys by Avi. Set in the late 1770's, it is the story of two young indentured servants who make their escape with the help of Quakers in Bucks County.
  • Shoo-Fly Girl by Lenski
  • Skippack School by DeAngeli
  • The story of Punxsutawney Phil by Julia S. Moutran
  • TROUBLE AT THE MINES by Rappaport. Rosie and her family are caught up in the Arnot, PA mining strike of 1899-1900 led by Mother Jones.
• Rhode Island
  • Something Upstairs by Avi
  • Tomahawk Shadow by Faulkner
• South Dakota
  • Addie stories by Laurie Lawlor;
  • Andrew Jackson by Judson
  • Black-eyed Susan by Jennifer Armstrong;
  • The Blind Colt by Rounds
  • By the Shores of Silver Lake, Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • THE CAVE by Karr;
  • THE FIRST FOUR YEARS by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Hugh Glass, Mountain Man, by Robert McClung
  • Little town on the prairie Laura Ingalls Wilder. The little town referred to in the title is De Smet, SD, De Smet holds an outdoor pageant every summer based on incidents from one of Laura's books. There is also a museum and a walking tour of places in the town which are referred to in her book.
  • LONG WINTER, HAPPY GOLDEN YEARS, Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • My prairie year, by Brett Harvey;
  • The Mystery of Edisto Island by Idella Bodie
  • Prairie School by Lenski
  • Rebel Seige by Kjelgaard
  • Tomahawk Family by Carlson
• Tennessee
  • Andrew Jackson, Frontier Statesman by Judson
  • Flaming Arrows, the Lone Hunt, Perilous Road by Steele
  • Swamp Angel by Anne Isaacs
  • White Bird by Bulla
• Texas
  • Armadillo Rodeo by Jan Brett
  • Devil Storm by Theresa Nelson
  • Don't scream by Joan Lowery Nixon--Another excellent mystery that takes place in Texas - quite a lot of setting description.
  • Old Yeller by Gipson
  • Savage Sam by Gipson
  • Switching Well by Peni Griffith
  • Texas Tomboy by Lenski
• Utah
  • Blue Canyon Horse by Clark
  • THE GREAT BRAIN series by Fitzgerald
  • Me and My Little Brain by Fitzgerald
• Vermont
  • America's Ethan Allan by Holbrook
  • AS LONG AS THERE ARE MOUNTAINS by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
  • The Canada Geese Quilt by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
  • Captive of Pitsford Ridge by Janice Ovecka (Vt. history)
  • Cave of Falling Water by Janice Ovecka
  • A Horse Named Justin Morgan by Felton
  • JIP: HIS STORY Paterson, Katherine,
  • Lyddie - Katherine Paterson (Vt. girl goes to mills in Mass.)
  • Soup, Soup and Me, Soup for President, Soup in the Saddle by Peck
• Virginia
  • Appalachia : The Voices of Sleeping Birds ~ Cynthia Rylant
  • Bridge to Terrabithia by Katherine Paterson
  • Come Sing, Jimmy Jo by Paterson
  • Flowers in the Attic -~ V. C. Andrews
  • Misty of Chincoteague by Henry
  • The Relatives Came ~ Cynthia Rylant
  • Silver Packages : An Appalachian Christmas Story ~ Cynthia Rylant
  • Stormy by Henry
  • When I Was Young in the Mountains ~ Cynthia Rylant
  • Wolf by the Ears ~ Ann Rinaldi
• Washington
  • Jim Bridger by Garst
  • The Ghost Canoe by Will Hobbs State of Washington. Setting is the Olympic peninsula near Makah reservation and the small towns nearby Cape Flattery. Murder mystery suitable for grades 4 and up.
• West Virginia
  • Coal Camp Girl by Lenski
  • MISSING MAY by Rylant;
  • SHILOH by Naylor;
  • SLOPES OF WAR by Perez;
  • Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
• Wisconsin
  • Caddie Woodlawn by Brink
  • Hodag by ?
  • Little House in the Big Woods by L. I. Wilder
  • Thimble Summer by Enright
• Wyoming
  • The Absolutely True Story of How I Visited Yellowstone...."_by Willow Davis Roberts
  • Dangerous Ground_ by Gloria Skurzynski;
  • The Green Grass of Wyoming_by Mary O'Hara;
  • Jenny of the Tetons_ by Kristiana Gregory;
  • Little Big Man_ by Thomas Berger
  • My Friend Flicka_ by Mary O'Hara;
  • Red Dog_ by Bill Wallace;
  • The Virginian_ by Owen Wister;

 

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