Jean Van Leeuwen
2) Going West
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Follows a family's emigration by prairie schooner from the East, across the plains to Kansas.
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Oliver and Amanda Pig volume 1
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Five adventures of Oliver Pig with his family.
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Oliver and Amanda Pig volume 4
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Amanda Pig, her brother Oliver, and their parents share a busy day, working and playing together from breakfast to bedtime.
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Oliver and Amanda Pig volume 3
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[1982]
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Presents five stories about telling secrets, playing alone, and other activities in the lives of Oliver and Amanda who are sometimes known as Mighty Pig and Amazing Baby Pig.
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Oliver and Amanda Pig volume 15
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c2003
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Amanda the pig sees monsters at night, but her parents and her brother find different ways to convince her that there are no monsters.
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Oliver and Amanda Pig volume 18
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2006
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Oliver Pig decides to build a fort in the backyard and his friends become involved with the project as well.
10) Bound for Oregon
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A fictionalized account of the true life journey made by nine-year-old Mary Ellen Todd and her family from their home in Arkansas westward over the Oregon Trail in 1852.
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Oliver and Amanda Pig volume 17
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Amanda Pig and her family and friends try to find different ways to beat the heat.
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Oliver and Amanda Pig volume 9
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When her brother goes off to school, Amanda finds new things to do, including ballet dancing, cleaning her room, and making a very sad, mad day go away, with the help of hugs from Mother Pig.
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Oliver and Amanda Pig volume 14
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2000.
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Oliver makes friends with Albert, the new boy in class, and they have fun together, playing kickball and collecting bugs.
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Oliver and Amanda Pig volume 5
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[1985]
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Five more adventures of Amanda Pig and her family are told here, in which noisy cousins come to visit and Father gets a stuffed toy for his birthday.
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Pioneer daughters volume 2
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In 1779 in Fairfield, Connecticut, Hannah and her family try to maintain a sense of normalcy as the Revolutionary War rages around them, threatening to destroy their way of life.