westward expension

Westward Migration

* ...If you travelled west in a covered wagon

* A Different Kind of Hero by Ann Blakeslee

* ADDIE ACROSS THE PRAIRIE (westward movement)

* AGAINST A CROOKED SKY (a boy goes to search for his sister taken by Indians)

* BEHAVE YOURSELF BETHANY BRANT (1800's)

* BEYOND THE DIVIDE (westward movement)

* Bound for Oregon (VanLeeuwen)

* Bound for Oregon by Jan VanLeeuwen

* CHILDREN OF THE COVERED WAGON (westward movement)

* Children of the Westward Trail (an information-packed book with actual

* Children of the wild West (Freedman)--non-fiction

* Children of The Wild West. Other books in this same series are excellent resources, too.

* CHRISTMAS MIRACLE OF JONATHAN TOOMEY (1800'S)

* Courage of Sarah Noble (Dalgliesh)

* Cowboys of the Wild West by Russell Freedman

* Cowboys, Indians and Gunfighters by Albert Marrin

* Daily Life in a Covered Wagon is a "picture book" but has lots of photos and info, as well.

* Dakota Dugout, also a picture book, but very poetic, about the loneliness

* Dandelions (Bunting)

* Dandelions, Eve Bunting.

* Danger along the Ohio

* Day in a covered wagon (Gibbons)

* Dear America Series titles

* Dear Levi Woodruff? It's the story in letters of a boy going west with a wagon train to Oregon.

* Dear Levi, letters from Overland trail (Woodruff)

* Dragon's Gate by Lawrence Yep

* FORTUNE'S JOURNEY (1853 westward movement)

* Frontier Home by Raymond Bial

* Golly Sisters Go West

* Grandma Essie's Covered Wagon by David Williams

* Hugh Glass, Mountain Man by Robert McClung

* I Have Heard of a Land by Joyce Carol Thomas

* I'm sorry, Almira Ann (Henry Holt, 1999)

* Incident at Hawk's Hill (Eckert)

* Jimmy D., Sidewinder, and Me

* John Henry by Julius Lester

* Journey to Nowhere (Auch)

* KIRSTI (1800's immigration and westward movement)

* Landmark Picture History book of Westward Ho (like The Liberty Tree by Penner); same series of Random House Landmark books, but in "picture book" format.

* Lantern in her Hand

* Life in a covered wagon--non-fiction

* LITTLE HOUSE series (1800's)

* MANDIE series (late 1800-early 1900's)

* Mississippi Mud by Ann Turner - Poems of pioneer children regarding trip from Kentucky to Oregon

* My Antonia

* My Great Aunt Arizona (Houston)

* My Prairie Year

* Next Spring an Oriol (whelan)

* OH, SUSANNAH (Texas 1800's)

* OLD YELLER

* Orphan Train Rider. Andrea Warren.

* ORPHAN TRAIN series (1800's)

* Prairie Songs (Pam Conrad).

* Rachel: Journal of a pioneer girl (Moss)

* Sarah, Plain and Tall (Maclachlan)

* SARAH, PLAIN AND TALL (westward movement)

* Save Queen of Sheba

* Save Queen of Sheba (Moeri)

* SAVE QUEEN OF SHEBA (westward movement)

* STRAIGHT ALONG A CROOKED ROAD (1851 Vermont to California)

* The Cabin Faced West (Fritz)

* The Eagle and the Raven, James Michener, about Sam Houston and Santa Anna.

* The fields by Conrad Richter.

* The Iron Dragon Never Sleeps, Krensky

* THE JOURNEY HOME (1800's)

* The Oregon Trail by Leonard Everett Fisher

* The Rough and Ready series (Rough and Ready Homesteaders is one of them.)

* The town by Conrad Richter.

* The trees by Conrad Richter.

* TIDEWATER VALLEY (immigration Oregon 1800's)

* Van Woerkem's Bound for Oregon, Jean, (a novel) is based on a diary the author found when she worked on her picture book

* Walking up a Rainbow

* Walking Up a Rainbow (Theodore Taylor)

* Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey by Carl Degler

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