Anna's Blizzard
by Alison Hart
JF HART, A.

Having never excelled at schoolwork, twelve-year-old Anna discovers that she may know a few things about survival when the 1888 Children's Blizzard traps her and her classmates in their Nebraska schoolhouse.

Julie Meyer: The Story of a Wagon Train Girl
by Dorothy Hoobler
JF HOOBLER, D.

Julie and her family join a wagon train traveling from Indiana to Oregon during the 1800s, enduring many challenges while on the difficult five-month journey. (Her Story series)

Crossing the Colorado Rockies, 1864
by Laurie Lawlor
JF LAWLOR, L.

As the Civil War rages, the Hitchcock family heads from Pennsylvania toward the Rocky Mountains, hoping to find gold. They travel through hostile country where everything is strange and frightening. (American Sisters series)

West Along the Wagon Road, 1852
by Laurie Lawlor
JF LAWLOR, L.

Harriet Scott runs into many difficulties and adventures on a wagon train headed for Oregon Territory as she copes with the death of her mother and the dangers that her remaining family face. (American Sisters series)

Rachel's Journal: The Story of a Pioneer Girl
by Marissa Moss
JF MOSS, M.

In her journal, Rachel chronicles her family's adventures as they travel by covered wagon on the Oregon Trail in 1850.

My Face to the Wind: The Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher
by Jim Murphy
JF MURPHY, J.

Following her father's death from a disease that swept through her Nebraska town in 1881, teenaged Sarah Jane must find work to support herself. (Dear America series)

Mr. Tucket
by Gary Paulsen
JF PAULSEN, G.

In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper, who teaches him how to live in the wild. (The Tucket Adventures)

Billy the Kid: A Novel
by Theodore Taylor
JF TAYLOR, T.

Young William Bonney is talked into committing his first train robbery, unaware that his cousin and best friend, Willie Monroe, is now sheriff of the nearby town and that his fellow robbers are already wanted in four states.