minnesota

In rural Minnesota in 1974, thirteen-year-old Pride Star, raised to be independent, must accept help from friends and neighbors to care for eleven-year-old Nightingale and six-year-old Baby when her grandfather is hospitalized with a brain infection.

After grasshoppers ruin the crops, eight-year-old Laura Ingalls and her family leave Plum Creek and move to Burr Oak, Iowa, where they experience life in a small town and help manage a hotel.

After moving from Malone, New York, to Spring Valley, Minnesota, in the 1870s, fourteen-year-old Almanzo Wilder, who would grow up to become the husband of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and his family must decide whether to stay out west or return home to the life they have always known.

While investigating minor crimes in the small town of Trippton, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent Virgil Flowers discovers a series of increasingly serious felonies linked to the county school board.

Almost-eight-year-old Winona, living in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Minnesota, knows she has a special red dress and lots of friends for her birthday party, but she wonders if she will really get the pony that she is longing for.

Since the death of his older brother, thirteen-year-old Billy Baggs has had a distant relationship with his father, but life on their farm in northern Minnesota begins to change when he starts to play baseball.

The Guthrie and its people shine in this book , November 10, 2006 By armchairinterviews.com (Minnesota) - See all my reviews Subtitled: Imagines, History, and Inside Stories In 1963, with very strong business and community support, Minneapolis became the home to Sir Tyrone Guthrie's theatre. This theater's thrust stage was most unique in 1963--as the 1500 audience members sat on three sides. During these 40-plus years, famous and soon-to-be famous actors graced the stage. Hamlet, the opening play, has been done several times in those 40 years, including the last play in the old theatre May 2005. Now the Guthrie is located in a spectacular new building looking over the famous Mississippi River that runs through downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul, and this book celebrates the people behind the scenes, the actors and the plays. The book was the brainchild of theatre alum (stage manager and production manager) and advocate, Peg Guilfoyle, and working together with Nodin Press (who produces regional books), they gave us this loving gift. Each season is recapped and one play is selected to represent that season. What a job that must have been to pick just one for each season of first-class theatre productions. These full-page (10 x 11") full-color photos show many of favorite plays, and will impress regular theatergoers or those who have heard of its international reputation.

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