How to Find Children's Books about Pioneers
You can locate books in the Libraries using Omni and entering the title, author or subject of the book. To find a book by subject, you can enter a subject heading. Be sure to select "Subject" in ADVANCED search. A sample of subject heading for books on Pioneers are listed below:
- Frontier and pioneer life - juvenile literature
- Frontier and pioneer life - Canada - juvenile literature
A Selection of Titles
Caddie Woodlawn by Chronicles the adventures of eleven-year-old Caddie growing up with her six brothers and sisters on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.
Apples to Oregon: Being the (Slightly) True Narrative of How a Brave Pioneer ... by 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.
Going West by Follows a family's emigration by prairie schooner from the East, across the plains to the West
The Hungry Year by "Kate and her family come to Canada during the Hungry Year of 1787. When her father does not return from a hunting trip, Kate uses all her resources to keep her family alive"
If You Were a Pioneer on the Prairie by This new addition to the popular question and answer history series invites readers to step back in time and see what it was like to grow up on the Great Plains more than 100 years ago. What kind of house would you live in? What kind of clothes would you wear? What would you do for fun? Would you go to school? The answers to these and 34 more questions give eight to ten year olds a vivid idea of a pioneer child's day to day life as well as the hardships the pioneering family faced as they attempted to settle in the vast and often forbidding prairie lands.
Sarah, Plain and Tall by When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.
Ticket to Curlew by In 1915 eleven-year-old Sam and his father arrive in an undeveloped part of western Canada and begin to plan a new farm for the family waiting back in Iowa.
White Indian Boy by This is the true story of Uncle Nick Wilson. He was a man who not only lived part of his life with the Shoshone Indians but rode for the Pony Express. Wilson, Wyoming is named after him.
Winter of peril : the Newfoundland diary of Sophie Loveridge by Sophie{2019}s father is determined to travel to the New World and write an epic poem about his adventure, against Sophie and her mother{2019}s wishes. After their long voyage, they arrive to a 2new world3 indeed. Will they be able to survive the winter in this harsh country?
Pioneer Kids (Canadian Flyer Adventure Series) by Emily and Matt visit a one-room schoolhouse where they try to help a new friend deal with a classroom bully. But when a raging fire erupts, it{u2019}s Emily and Matt who need rescuing! These time-travel adventures offer an engaging way for young readers to explore Canadian history.
