Betsy loves the prairie, but it is a lonely place. When a family moves nearby, Betsy can't wait to make friends with the new girl, Emmeline. But Emmeline misses the city. Can Betsy help her learn to love her new home? Ages 2 – 4

Prairie Friends (I Can Read Level 3)

Children's Books

Levinson, Nancy Smiler

Literature & Fiction

Harpercollins

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"

Snowshoe Thompson (An I Can Read Book)

Biographies & Memoirs

Harpercollins Childrens Books

A retelling of an American folktale follows Scandanavian immigrant John Thompson, intent on finding gold, as he arrives in Placerville, California, in the 1850s and searches for wealth. By the author of Clara and the Bookwagon.

Sandin, Joan

Papa will not allow Clara to learn to read—he says that `Farm people like us do not have time to read." But when the traveling bookwagon, with persuasive Miss Mary at the reins, arrives at their farm, Papa realizes he must change his mind. Based on the true story of America's first `bookmobile.'

Clara and the Bookwagon (I Can Read Books)

HARPER/TROPHY

Clara's dream of enriching her rough life on the family farm is fulfilled when a horse-drawn book wagon visits with the country's first traveling library.

Clara and the Bookwagon (I Can Read!)

Prairie Friends (I Can Read Book 3)

Betsy and her family live on the wide Nebraska prairie. Homesteads are few and far between, and she wishes she had a friend to visit with. Then a new family, with a daughter named Emmeline, comes to the prairie. Betsy is certain she'll have a friend at last, but Emmeline misses the city she left behind. Can Betsy help Emmeline learn to appreciate her new home? Will they ever be friends? Stacey Schuett's warm, rich art illuminates Nancy Smiler Levinson's gentle portrait of mid-nineteenth century prairie life, community, and friendship.

Danny wishes his dad would come home from Nevada for Christmas and writes him a letter to tell him so. When snow cuts off the mail until spring, only postman John Thompson can get through the Sierra Nevada Mountains to deliver his letter. "Based on a true story, this is lively historical fiction with a nice sense of character and adventure, [and] the illustrations are packed with feeling and action." —BL. 
 Notable 1992 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)

Snowshoe Thompson (Rise and Shine) (I Can Read Level 3)

Biographies

Determined to find a new and better route to Asia and the distant and profitable Spice Islands, Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Spain in 1519 on what would become the history-making first circumnavigation of the world. Magellan himself did not complete the journey—he was killed by a poison arrow while on the Pacific island of Mactan—but the expedition he mounted forever changed the course of human exploration. Details of the journey, including Magellan’s tools of navigation, the political battles for control over the valuable islands of the Pacific, and Magellan’s final moments in battle, are all vividly portrayed

Magellan: And the First Voyage Around the World

History

Clarion Books

A biography of the fifteenth-century Italian seaman and navigator who unknowingly discovered a new continent while looking for a western route to India

Christopher Columbus

Dutton Books for Young Readers

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Prairie Friends (I Can Read Level 3)

Snowshoe Thompson (An I Can Read Book)

Snowshoe Thompson (An I Can Read Book)

Clara and the Bookwagon (I Can Read Books)

Clara and the Bookwagon (I Can Read!)

Prairie Friends (I Can Read Book 3)

Prairie Friends (I Can Read Book 3)

Snowshoe Thompson (Rise and Shine) (I Can Read Level 3)

Magellan: And the First Voyage Around the World

Christopher Columbus