middle west

Examines the history of pioneer farmers, focusing on the types of foods they grew and ate, and includes recipes, as well as advice on kitchen safety and cooking equipment.

Trace Bonham knows he is fortunate to be offered a chance at being a paid super stock driver when he is still in high school, but regrets that he must leave his friends and home track and wonders if the sponsor is legitimate.

Describes lives of eight people who played a significant role in the exploration of territory and founding of settlements in the American Midwest. Includes Antoine Cadillac, Charles Langlade, Jean du Sable, George Rogers Clark, Rufus Putnam, Julien Dubuque, and Josiah and Abigail Snelling.

It is 1972 when circumstance carries Ellen Grier and her family back to Holly's Field, WI. Dutifully accompanying her newly unemployed husband, Ellen and her 2 children move into the home of her in-laws on Vinegar Hill. This is a loveless house where calculated cruelty is a way of life.

When a neighbor's daughter drowns while under Alice Goodwin's care, a seemingly trivial incident from Alice's past resurfaces and takes on gigantic proportions.

After their guardian dies, fifteen-year-old Lutie McFee and her nine-year-old brother decide to flee their hometown to avoid becoming wards of the state and head for Las Vegas in hopes of finding their estranged father.

Using private letters, newspaper accounts, and interviews from survivors, the author presents a history of the dust storms that occurred throughout the Midwest during the Great Depression.

In 1913, in the Midwest, a quartet of characters share adventures, from exploding steamboats to "exorcizing" a ghost.

George Babbit is a middle class American living in an average Midwestern city, in this satire of middle class life.