Ann Turner Books
Nettie's Trip South
A ten-year-old northern girl encounters the ugly realities of slavery when she visits Richmond, Virginia, and sees a slave auction.
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Hedgehog for Breakfast
Papa's statement that he would like to have Mrs. Hedgehog for breakfast leads George and Charles to try to cook her in their kitchen, but their guest does not seem to realize that they intend her f...
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Apple Valley Year
The Clark family keeps busy through all four seasons at their apple orchard, pruning dead branches at the end of winter, carrying the beehives among the trees in May, propping up branches heavy wit...
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Sewing Quilts
A pioneer girl sees pieces of her life sewn into the quilts she, her sister, and her mother make.
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Grasshopper Summer
By Ann Warren Turner, Charles Hampden Turner
In 1874 eleven-year-old Sam and his family move from Kentucky to the southern Dakota Territory, where harsh conditions and a plague of hungry grasshoppers threaten their chances for survival.
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Katie's Trunk
Katie, whose family is not sympathetic to the rebel soldiers during the American Revolution, hides under the clothes in her mother's wedding trunk when they invade her home.
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Dakota Dugout
A woman describes her experiences living with her husband in a sod house on the Dakota prairie.
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Dust for dinner
Jake narrates the story of his family's life in the Oklahoma dust bowl and the journey from their ravaged farm to California during the Great Depression.
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In the Heart
A girl describes the important parts of her day, from the warmth of the morning sun to the moon overhead at night.
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