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Need a book: westward expansion/covered wagons, 4th gr level
by B/2/NY
Mar 24, 2009
Cross-posted on the Primary Elementary board...)

Hello teachers!

I am working on a thematic unit on pioneer life/westward expansion and I need a new book for my high-achieving readers. It needs to be at a 4th grade level, and about covered wagons. (I have one picked out for life on the prairie.)

I already have the Laura Ingalls series but have decided not to use it, so many of the kids have read it/had it read to them and I want something new...

We are using Sarah, Plain and Tall later in the year, so that won't work either.

I ordered a book called Bound for Oregon but have decided not to use it because it introduces the N--- word, and I think my class is too young for an academic discussion about that. If it came up at school I would handle it, but I don't want to be the one that teaches it to them!

If anyone is still reading, I am also trying to remember a book I read when I was a kid. It was about a girl that traveled west ...See More
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