My Face to the Wind: The Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher, Broken Bow, Nebraska, 1881
by Jim Murphy • Book 25 of the Dear America Series
In the late 1870s many young teachers traveled West to earn money and make a new... read more
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- Grade
- 5-8
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
Year Published 2001
Word Count 37,941
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 810L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.6
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 54170, 6 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Subject Headings
- Juvenile Fiction | School & Education
- Orphans--Fiction
- Diaries
- Teachers
- Orphans
- City and town life
- Teachers--Fiction
- 19th century
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 19th Century
- Self-reliance
- City and town life--Nebraska--Fiction
- Nebraska
- Self-reliance--Fiction
- Nebraska--History--19th century--Fiction
- History
- Diaries--Fiction
- Lists With This Book
- Books From All 50 States - Nebraska
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