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This handbook for educators of K-12 students from Somalia is an invaluable guide to the cultural, religious, socioeconomic, and family issues that these refugee students bring the the classroom. The authors present a sensitive portrait of the traumatic experiences that refugee Somaili families in the United States had to endure in their escape from war to a new life.

Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.

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.

In 1864 when his family moves to Bellfield, Minnesota, where his father will be the town minister, twelve-year-old Ben misses his friend Zack, who is now a drummer in the Union Army, but he finds a new friend in an orphan whose parents were killed during an Indian raid.

In the summer of 1965, teenager Paul Sutton, a northern Minnesota farm boy, takes a job at a gas station in town, where his strict religious upbringing is challenged by new people and experiences.

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.

NHL. Olympic Hockey. Olympics.

A young boy growing up on a northern Minnesota farm describes the scenes around him and recounts his old Norwegian uncle's tales of an almost mythological logging past.

When protests about a superstore chain's plans to build a location in a Minnesota river town escalade into bombing attacks at the construction site and the company's headquarters, Virgil Flowers races against time to find and stop the bomber.