Little House on the Prairie            

If you like Little House on the Prairie … then check out these titles!

Chapter Books

Auch, Mary Jane. Journey to Nowhere. Henry Holt, 1997. J AUC
In 1815, while traveling by covered wagon to settle in the wilderness of western New York, eleven-year-old Mem experiences a flood and separation from her family.

Brink, Carol Ryrie. Caddie Woodlawn. Macmillan, 1973. J BRI
The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.

Dalgliesh, Alice. The Courage of Sarah Noble. Scribner, 1954. J DAL
Remembering her mother's words, an eight-year-old girl finds courage to go alone with her father to build a new home in the Connecticut wilderness and to stay with the Indians when her father goes back to bring the rest of the family.

Fleischman, Paul. The Borning Room. HarperCollins, 1991. J FLE
Lying at the end of her life in the room where she was born in 1851, Georgina remembers what it was like to grow up on the Ohio frontier. Grades 5 and up.

MacBride, Roger Lea. In the Land of the Big Red Apple. HarperCollins, 1995. J MAC
A year after moving to their farm in the Ozarks, Laura and Almanzo Wilder and their young daughter, Rose, have settled into their new home with a successful vegetable harvest and the beginnings of an apple orchard.

McCaughrean, Geraldine. Stop the Train!: a Novel. HarperCollins, 2003. J MCC
Despite the opposition of the owner of the Red Rock Runner railroad in 1893, the new settlers of Florence, Oklahoma, are determined to build a real town.

Oswald, Nancy. Nothing Here But Stones. Henry Holt, 2004. J OSW
In 1882, ten-year-old Emma and her family, along with other Russian Jewish immigrants, arrive in Cotopaxi, Colorado, where they face inhospitable conditions as they attempt to start an agricultural colony, and lonely Emma is comforted by the horse whose life she saved.

Whelan, Gloria. Night of the Full Moon. Random House, 1993. J WHE
When she sneaks away to visit her friend, a young girl living on the Michigan frontier is caught up in the forced evacuation of a group of Potawatomi Indians from their tribal lands in the 1840s.

Wilkes, Maria D. Brookfield Days. Little House Chapter Books. Caroline 1. HarperCollins, 1991. J WIL
Presents the daily experiences and adventures of young Caroline Quiner, the girl who would grow up to be Laura Ingalls Wilder's mother, in the frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin.

Juvenile Non-Fiction

Collins, Carolyn Strom. Inside Laura’s Little House: The Little House on the Prairie Treasury. HarperCollins, 2000. J 813.52 COL
Chapters explore various topics from “Little House on the Prairie,” providing historical and biographical information, recipes, creative activities, and related songs with notations.

Goodman, Susan E. Cora Frear: A True Story. Aladdin, 2002. J B F489
While making house calls with her frontier doctor father, Cora Frear finds herself in a dangerous situation as she and her father are surrounded by a prairie fire raging out of control.

Harness, Cheryl. The Tragic Tale of Narcissa Whitman and a Faithful History of the Oregon Trail. National Geographic Society, 2006. J 917.8042 HAR

Adventure-loving Narcissa rides side-saddle 2000 miles across country, planning to be a missionary in the Oregon Country.  Readers will find out what happened when she got to the end of the Oregon trail!

Josephson, Judith Pinkerton. Growing Up in Pioneer America, 1800 to 1890. Lerner Publications, 2003. J 978 JOS
Describes what life was like for young people moving to and living on the western frontier.

Wadsworth, Ginger. Words West: Voices of Young Pioneers. Clarion Books, 2003. J 917.8042 WAD
Here are the moving stories of young pioneers, told in their own words through letters home, diaries, and memoirs.

Beginning Readers

Brenner, Barbara. Wagon Wheels. Harper and Row, 1978. E BRE
Shortly after the Civil War a black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act.

Levinson, Nancy Smiler. Snowshoe Thompson. HarperCollins, 1992. E LEV
One winter John Thompson skis across the Sierra Nevada Mountains and creates a path upon which mail and people may travel, thus earning his nickname "Snowshoe Thompson."

Picture Books

Erdrich, Louise. The Range Eternal. Hyperion Books for Children, 2002. E ERD
Sumptuous paintings of the plains and cozy domestic scenes combine with graceful language to describe the rituals that keep family and community together.

Helldorfer, M.C. Hog Music. Viking, 2000. E HEL
Travelers along the National Road help make sure that the birthday gift that Lucy's great aunt has sent makes it all the way from Maryland to her family's farm in Illinois.

Hopkinson, Deborah. Apples to Oregon: being the (slightly) true narrative of how a brave pioneer father brought apples, peaches, pears, plums, grapes, and cherries (and children) across the plains. Athenuem Books for Young Readers, 2004. E HOP
A pioneer father transports his beloved fruit trees and his family to Oregon in the mid-nineteenth century. Based loosely on the life of Henderson Luelling.

Howard, Ellen. The Log Cabin Quilt. Holiday House, 1996. E HOW
When Elvirey and her family move to a log cabin in the Michigan woods, something even more important than Granny's quilt pieces makes the new dwelling a home.

Levinson, Nancy Smiler. Prairie Friends. HarperCollins, 2003. E LEV
When Betsy learns that a new family is coming to the Nebraska prairie, she hopes they have a girl who will be her friend.

Levitin, Sonia. Nine for California. Orchard Books, 1996. E LEV
Amanda travels by stagecoach with her four siblings and her mother from Missouri to California to join her father.

Stanley, Diane. Roughing it on the Oregon Trail. Joanna Cotler Books, 2000. E STA
Twins Liz and Lenny, along with their time-traveling grandmother, join a group of pioneers journeying west on the Oregon Trail in 1843.

Van Leeuwen, Jean. Nothing Here But Trees. Dial Books for Young Readers, 1998. E VAN
A close-knit pioneer family carves out a new home amidst the densely forested land of Ohio in the early nineteenth century.