Mrs. McGowan's Class    Spring Lake, NJ 

Books About
Pioneers for Younger Students

 Little House on the Prairie Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder

 The Little House Cookbook: Frontier Foods from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Classic Stories
by Barbara M. Walker

 New Hope by Henry Sorensen

 If You Traveled West In A Covered Wagon by Ellen Levine

 Quilt Block History of Pioneer Days by Mary Cobb

 Only Opal: The Diary of a Young Girl by Jane Boulton Illustrated by Barbara Cooney (Miss Rumphius author)
 
Deborah Hopkinson books:
     Apples to Oregon
     A Packet of Seeds
     Prairie Skies: Cabin in the Snow

 Cassie's Journey: Going West in the 1860's by Brett Harvey

 Dandelions by Eve Bunting

 Going West! Journey on a Wagon Train to Settle a Frontier Town by
     Carol A Johmann  and Elizabeth Rieth

 Going West by Jean Van Leeuwen

 How Would You Survive in the American West? by David Salariya

Joan Sandin books:
     Pioneer Bear
     The Long Way to a New Land and
     The Long Way Westward  -  about a family's journey from their Swedish farm to
           a new home in Minnesota.
     Coyote School News - about a Mexican pioneer family

 Wagon Wheels (I Can Read Books) by Barbara Brenner

 The Josefina Story Quilt (I Can Read Book 3) by Eleanor Coerr

 Western Pioneers Coloring Book by Peter F. Copeland

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