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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
On the other side of the hill	Roger Lea MacBride	In the early 1900s, young Rose Wilder and her parents struggle with a series of natural disasters on their farm in Missouri.	OL115574W
Little farm in the Ozarks	Roger Lea MacBride	Laura and Almanzo Wilder and their eight-year-old daughter Rose continue to work to make Rocky Ridge farm in Missouri their new home.	OL115579W
Emma's river	Alison Hart	In 1852, Emma, her pregnant mother and her pony board the steamboat Sally May to meet her father in St. Joseph, Missouri, but when the ship suddenly explodes in a fiery blaze, Emma and all onboard mu…	OL11802968W
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [adaptation]	Clay Stafford	Adaptation of [Adventures of Huckleberry Finn](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL53908W). When Huck Finn and Jim run away from "civilized" life, they end up in some of the wildest adventures--as dar…	OL15132300W
Joy school	Elizabeth Berg	A lonely thirteen-year-old girl moves to Missouri with her distant and occasionally abusive father and falls in love with an older--and married--gasoline station attendant, an affair that teaches her…	OL15843609W
Novels (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Adventures of Tom Sawyer)	Mark Twain	THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER Take a lighthearted, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, seen through the eyes of a very special boy named Tom Sawyer. It is a dreamlike summertime world of hooky and ad…	OL16025215W
Some nerve	Jane Heller	Thirty-year-old Celebrity journalist Ann Roth has one last chance to prove herself. She is different from the other reporters at Famous, the L.A. magazine, where she has her dream job interviewing st…	OL16026924W
Death in lovers' lane	Carolyn G. Hart	A Pulitzer Prize-winning ex-reporter and journalism teacher at ivy-covered Thorndyke University, Henrietta "Henrie O" Collins demands of her students the same steadfast dedication to the truth that w…	OL167206W
Death in paradise	Carolyn G. Hart	Six years ago, Henrie O's beloved newspaperman husband Richard lost his life on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Now, on a brisk March morning, a chilling message has arrived by Priority Mail claiming R…	OL167207W
Reaching Dustin	Vicki Grove	Fifth-grader Carly's assignment to interview a reclusive, brooding classmate leads her to discover some of the events that have caused his antisocial and abusive family's negative impact on their Mis…	OL17740883W
The actual & truthful adventures of Becky Thatcher	Jessica Lawson	In 1860, eleven-year-old Becky Thatcher, new to St. Petersburg, Missouri, joins the boys at school in a bet to steal from the Widow Douglas in hopes of meeting a promise to have adventures that she m…	OL17826950W
This bitter earth	Bernice L. McFadden	"This Bitter Earth picks up where Sugar left off: on the dirt road leading to Sugar's childhood home in Short Junction, Arkansas. Here, Sugar hears a shocking revelation about unrequited love, and ab…	OL18166734W
Seeing America	Nancy Crocker	"Missouri, 1910. John Hartmann is graduating from high school under the critical eye of his father and has no idea what options lie beyond the family farm and his small town. When Paul Bricken, ninet…	OL19982960W
Dead between the lines	Denise Swanson	"Opening an old-fashioned five-and-dime shop in her small Missouri hometown has been a great change for Devereaux "Dev" Sinclair. But when she hosts a reading group there, she learns that bad writing…	OL20913893W
Just for You to Know	Cheryl Harness	In Independence, Missouri, in 1963, twelve-year-old Carmen already has her hands full dealing with a dreamy mother, a sometimes reckless father, and five noisy little brothers, but must find a way to…	OL23887W
White Palace	Glenn Savan	Max is an up-and-coming advertising man and a devastated widower. Celibate since his wife's tragic death, Max suddenly and shockingly finds himself careening into a torrid affair with a woman from th…	OL3956913W
The adventures of Rose & Swiney	Roger Lea MacBride	Rose, the eight-year-old daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, has adventures in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri with her neighbor Swiney Baird.	OL447734W
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or as it is known in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is a novel by American author Mark Twain, which was first published in the United Kingdom…	OL53908W
Sharp Objects	Gillian Flynn	WICKED above her hipbone, GIRL across her heart Words are like a road map to reporter Camille Preaker's troubled past. Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille's first assignment from the…	OL5842018W
Playing with Matches	Brian Katcher	SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD LEON SANDERS has a mug that looks like it should be hanging in a post office somewhere. If he didn't have his twisted sense of humor, he'd have nothing at all. So it's no wonder to…	OL9334460W