Ravenstone Press 
Stories of Kansas and the Great Plains
| Ravenstone Press Stories of Kansas and the Great Plains |
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| Children's Books about or set in Kansas | ||
This selection of books set in or about Kansas spans over sixty
years
of publishing. Many are
out of print, as indicated below. Out-of-print titles may often
be
obtained through your local
library on Interlibrary Loan. If you are interested in
purchasing
out-of-print books, try looking
for them on Amazon.com, which now
also
lists used copies of out of print books.
This list primarily covers fiction. There are nonfiction
titles
published primarily as curriculum
support books which we have not chosen to include, and other nonfiction
titles
that could be of
interest.
If you know of titles not listed, please send email to: raven@ravenstonepress.com
Picture BooksEasy Readers
Cabin in the Snow by Deborah Hopkinson
(2002)
The Case of the Vanishing Cat by Dorothy Brenner Francis (2001)
Jayhawk Horse Mystery by Dorothy Brenner Francis (2001)
Pioneer Summer by Deborah Hopkinson (2002)
Prairie Skies: Our Kansas Home by Deborah Hopkinson (2003)
Wagon Wheels by Barbara Brenner (1978, 1993)
Children's Fiction
Airball: My Life in Briefs by Lisa
Harkrader (2005)
As Far as I Can See: Meg's Diary, St. Louis to
the
Kansas Territory, 1856
(My America series) by Kate McMullan (2001)
Blue Creek Farm : A Matty Trescott Novel
by
Carroll Thomas (2000)
Borderland Horse by Dorothy Brenner
Francis (2001)
Friends and Enemies by Louann Gaeddert (2000)
Frontier Farmer: Kansas Adventure
(Adventures
in Frontier America)
by Catherine E. Chambers (1998)
The Great Whale of Kansas by Richard W.
Jennings
(2001)
Hard Times on the Prairie by Melissa
Peterson
(1998)
Adapted from Little House on the Prairie
Imagicat by Jerri Garretson (2000)
In the Face of Danger by Joan Lowery Nixon (1988)
Jim-Dandy by Hadley Irwin (1994)
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
(many editions in print; 1953 revised ed.)
Riddle of the Prairie Bride (American Girl History Mysteries) by
Kathryn Reiss (2001)
Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith (1957 - Newbery Winner)
Rose's Journal : The Story of a Girl in the Great Depression by
Marissa
Moss (2001)
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (1985)
The Secret of Whispering Springs by Jerri Garretson (2002)
Shiner and Baseball by Nolan Carlson (1999)
Shiner and King by Nolan Carlson (1998)
Shiner's Return by Nolan Carlson (1995)
Slickfester Dude Tells Bedtime Stories : Life Lessons From Our
Animal
Friends
by Carol Duerksen (1997)
Soon Be Free by Lois Ruby (2000)
Steal Away Home by Lois Ruby (1994)
Summer and Shiner by Nolan Carlson (1992)
The Summer of the Crow by Eunice Boeve (2001)
SURVIVAL! Train Wreck , Kansas, 1892 by Kathleen Duey (1999)
Those Miller Girls by Alberta Wilson Constant (1965)
Twister on Tuesday by Mary Pope Osborne (2001) (Magic Tree
House
#23)
The Van Gogh Cafe by Cynthia Rylant (1995)
The Victory Garden by Lee Kochenderfer (2002)
Willow Chase, Kansas Territory, 1847 by Kathleen Duey (1997)
The Wind Wagon by Celia Barker Lottridge (1995)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (many editions)
Out-of-print titles
Before the Lark by Irene Bennett Brown
(1982)
(Large print version may be published in 2002)
Does Anybody Care About Lou Emma Miller? by Alberta Wilson
Constant
(1979)
Flint Hills Foal by Dorothy Brenner Francis
(1976)
Freedom Trail by Jeanne Williams (1973)
Indian Softball Summer, or, "Kickapoos Never Say Good-bye"
by Ronald G. Bliss (1974)
The Magic Dolls by Charline Bockhold Kay (1976)
Miriam's Dilemma by Donna Adee (1998)
The Motoring Millers by Alberta Wilson Constant (1969)
Moxie by Phyllis Rossiter (1990)
Mr. Yowder and the Windwagon by Glen Rounds (1983)
The Promised Land by Isabelle Holland (1996)
Ozma and the Wayward Wand by Polly Berrien (1985)
Pig-Out Inn by Lois Ruby (1987)
The Sod House by Elizabeth Coatsworth (1967)
The Sodbuster Venture by Charlene Joy Talbot (1982)
A Son of John Brown by Charles Henry Lerrigo (1937)
Those Miller Girls by Alberta Wilson Constant (1965)
When Windwagon Smith Came to Westport by Ramona Maher (1977)
Winter Wheat by Jeanne Williams (1975)
Young Adult Fiction
The Brute by Mike Klaassen (2005)
Dust in the Wind by Donald J. Richardson (2001)
Gross-hoppers! by David Jacobs (1996) (horror)
Lightning in a Drought Year by Michelle Black (2000)
The Monument by Gary Paulsen (1991)
Rain Is Not My Indian Name by Cynthia Leitich Smith (June 2001)
The Secret of Whispering Springs by Jerri Garretson (2002)
Out-of-print titles
The Courtship of Miriam by Donna Adee (1998)
Dove Dream by Hendle Rumbaut (1994)
Foal Creek by Peter Cohen (1972)
Miriam and Timothy Face Life by Donna Adee (2000) (Not
sure
of out of print status)
Nonfiction
Black Pioneers: An Untold Story by William Loren Katz (1999)
Color Kansas Characters by Phillip R. Buntin, (Kansas Heritage
Center)
Deadly Days in Kansas by Wayne C. Lee (1997)
Dwight D. Eisenhower: A Kansas Boy of Good Character by Linda
Duncan
(2001)
Homesteading on The Plains: Daily Life in the Land of Laura Ingalls
Wilder
by Mary Dodson Wade, 1997. Includes Kansas
among the locations.
Indians in Kansas : Illustrated Articles and Posters on Kansas
Native
Indian Tribes
by Dave Webb, Leo E. Olivia and Phil Buntin (1987)
399 Kansas Characters by Dave Webb (1992)
Tragic Prelude: Bleeding Kansas by Karen Zeinert (2001)
Out-of-print titles
Going Home to Nicodemus:
The Story of an African American Frontier
Town
and the Pioneers Who Settled It
by Daniel Chu (1994)
Last updated on February 20, 2008