Ann Warren 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.
Read MoreHedgehog 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...
Read MoreTickle a Pickle
Twenty-one poems including such titles as "Spaghetti for One Thousand," "Horrendous, Gorrendous," and "Lucky You."
Read MoreApple 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...
Read MoreSewing Quilts
A pioneer girl sees pieces of her life sewn into the quilts she, her sister, and her mother make.
Read MoreTime of the Bison
Eleven-year-old Scar Boy, one of a group of primitive cave dwellers, discovers that he has a gift for making pictures and becomes an apprentice to Painter of Caves.
Read MoreGrasshopper 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.
Read MoreKatie'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.
Read MoreDakota Dugout
A woman describes her experiences living with her husband in a sod house on the Dakota prairie.
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