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150 Oregon Books for the Oregon Sesquicentennial 150 Oregon Books for the Oregon Sesquicentennial Is there a better way to celebrate Oregon’s 150th birthday than by curling up with a good Oregon book? Here are 150 books, carefully selected for your reading enjoyment by librarians at the Oregon State Library in Salem. The list includes books for young readers as well as for older readers. It includes fiction, non-fiction, history and poetry. Some of these books are in-print and available at bookstores, and some are long out-of-print classics. Your local library should have many of them, or library staff can get them for you. Print out this list and start reading! Books for Young Readers Across the Wide and Bess's Log Cabin Quilt Lonesome Prairie: Dear (1995) D. Anne Love. America (1997) Kristina With her father away and Gregory. In her diary, her mother ill with fever, thirteen-year-old Hattie ten-year-old Bess works chronicles her family's hard on a log cabin quilt to arduous 1847 journey on the save the family farm. Oregon Trail. Apples to Oregon: Being the (Slightly) True Narrative of How a Brave Pioneer Father Bobbi: A Great Collie Brought Apples, Peaches, (1926) Charles Alexander. Pears, Plums, Grapes, and The true story of Bobbie, Cherries (and Children) who was separated from his Across the Plains (2004) owners in Indiana and made Deborah Hopkinson. A his way home unaided to pioneer father moves his Silverton, Oregon. family and his beloved fruit trees across the country to Oregon. An Oregon Reads 2009 selection. B is for Beaver: An Oregon Bound for Oregon (1994) Alphabet (2003) Marie and Jean Van Leeuwen. The Roland Smith. A journey Todd family sets out from across the Oregon Trail and their Arkansas home on a through the picturesque two thousand mile trek to Beaver State. Oregon in 1852. Bat 6 (2000) Virginia Euwer Wolff. This narrative uses a Daniel’s Walk (2001) sixth-grade girls baseball Michael Spooner. game in 1949 Oregon as a A teenage boy walks the vehicle for examining Oregon Trail in search of prejudice and the internment his missing father in 1844. of Japanese-Americans during WWII. An Oregon Reads 2009 selection. Page 1 Dear Levi: Letters from the The Ghost Stallion (1999) Oregon Trail (1994) Beth Laura Williams. In 1959, Peck. Twelve-year-old thirteen-year-old Mary Austin Ives heads to Elizabeth rides with her Oregon in 1851 and father to kill the wild describes his trek in letters stallion that is luring away to his younger brother. horses from their Oregon ranch and ruining their livelihood, but she secretly wants to save him. The Devil in Ol’ Rosie A Heart for Any Fate: (2001) Louise Moeri. Sent Westward to Oregon 1845 into the wilderness of (2006) Linda Crew. A Eastern Oregon in 1907 to spirited young woman joins round up the family's her family in an overland escaped horses, twelve- journey to Oregon that will year-old Wart struggles test each one of them to the against great dangers before limits of their faith and gaining his father's respect. endurance. The Double Life of Zoe Flynn (2007) Janet Lee How We Crossed the West: Carey. When Zoe's family The Adventures of Lewis has to live in their van for and Clark (2002) Rosalyn months after moving from Schanzer. A well- California to Oregon so her illustrated account of the father can find work, Zoe 1804-1805 journey of tries to keep her sixth-grade exploration with text from classmates from the actual diaries and letters discovering that she is of Lewis and Clark. homeless. I'm Sorry, Almira Ann Eli’s Songs (1991) Monte (1999) Jane Kurtz. Eight- Killingsworth. When his year-old Sarah's high spirits musician father hits the help make her family's long road, twelve-year-old Eli is journey from Missouri to sent to live with his aunt Oregon more bearable, and uncle in the Oregon though they cause both her woods. and her best friend Almira Ann some problems. The Journal of Augustus Facing West: A Story of the Pelletier: The Lewis and Oregon Trail (1994) Clark Expedition, 1804 Kathleen Kudlinski. As his (2000) Kathryn Lasky. A family sets out from fictional journal kept by Missouri to Oregon in twelve-year-old Augustus 1845, young Ben, who Pelletier, the youngest suffers from asthma, is member of Lewis and fearful of the dangers that Clark's Corps of Discovery. lie ahead. 150 Oregon Books for the Oregon Sesquicentennial Page 2 Joyride (1999) Gretchen On to Oregon! (1991 Olson. Seventeen-year-old reprint) Honore Morrow. Jeff is required to spend his The epic journey of the summer working on an Sager children by covered Oregon strawberry farm wagon from Missouri to where new friendships with Oregon in 1848. field hands and migrant workers, as well as the farmer's daughter, change his outlook. Operation Clean Sweep (2004) Darleen Bailey Long Ago in Oregon (1987) Beard. In 1916, just four Claude Lewis. These 17 years after getting the right autobiographical poems to vote, the women of describe the family life and Umatilla, Oregon band activities of a young girl in together to throw the mayor a small town in Oregon and other city officials out during 1917 and 1918. of office, replacing them with women. New Found Land: Lewis Oregon, Sweet Oregon: The and Clark’s Voyage of Petticoat Party Book, # 3 Discovery (2004) Allen (1998) Kathleen Karr. As Wolf. The letters and her family settles into their thoughts of Thomas new lives in the Oregon Jefferson, members of the territory, thirteen-year-old Corps of Discovery, their Phoebe Brown yearns for guide Sacagawea, and more of the freedoms she Captain Lewis's had experienced on the Newfoundland dog, are difficult cross-country used to tell the story of the journey. historic expedition to the Pacific Ocean. Picture Book of Lewis and The New Rules of High Clark (2003) David A. School (2003) Blake Adler. An introduction to Nelson. A restless Portland the lives of Lewis and Clark teenager nearing the end of and to the expedition they high school begins led from St. Louis to the questioning his approach to Pacific Ocean in the early life. nineteenth century. Precious Gold, Precious Olla-Piska: Tales of David Jade (2000) Sharon E. Douglas (2006) Margaret Heisel. Two Southern J. Anderson. An account of Oregon sisters befriend a the great botanist and Chinese family despite the explorer and his travels in racism and fear that Oregon in 1824-25. overwhelm the residents of their small mining town. Ramona the Pest (1968) Only Opal: The Diary of a Beverly Cleary. Ramona Young Girl. (1994) Barbara meets lots of interesting Cooney. Selections from people in kindergarten Opal Whiteley’s diary bring class, like Davy, whom she to life an extraordinary keeps trying to kiss, and child and evoke images of th Susan, whose springy curls rural life in early 20 seem to ask to be pulled. century Oregon. 150 Oregon Books for the Oregon Sesquicentennial Page 3 A Really Weird Summer (1977) Eloise Jarvis Tulip Sees America (2002) McGraw. While staying Cynthia Rylant. A young with relatives who live in man and his dog drive west an old inn, twelve-year-old from Ohio, and once they Nels finds a secret reach Oregon decide to passageway to a part of the stay. building that no longer exists and meets a strange boy whose family is trapped in a leftover pocket of time. Wagons West! (1996) Roy The Rules for Hearts (2007) Gerard. Buckskin Dan Sara Ryan. A story set in leads a young girl and her Portland about secrets, family and neighbors over revealed truths, and the ins rough terrain and through and outs of all kinds of deep rivers until they reach love. Oregon. Seaman: The Dog Who Explored the West With Year of the Black Pony Lewis and Clark (1999) (1976) Walt Morey. A boy Gail Karwoski. The growing up in the Oregon Newfoundland dog country in the early 1900's belonging to Meriwether experiences the death of his Lewis proves his value as a father, the remarriage of his hunter, navigator, and mother, and the ultimate protector while attainment of a dream. accompanying the Corps of Discovery. The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek (1955) Evelyn Sibley Lampman. The story of twins who discover a stegosaurus living on their Oregon ranch. The Summer of Riley (2001) Eve Bunting. Shortly after he gets “the perfect dog,” Riley, an Oregon boy must fight for the dog's life after Riley is taken away for injuring an elderly neighbor's horse. Tree Tall and the Horse Race (1986) Shirlee Evans. Tree Tall, an Indian boy living on an Oregon reservation in the mid- nineteenth century, wins a horse of his own in a race but finds his victory marred by misunderstanding and prejudice. 150 Oregon Books for the Oregon Sesquicentennial Page 4 Books for Older Readers About This Life: Journeys on Beauty of the City: A. E. the Threshold of Memory Doyle, Portland's (1998) Barry Lopez. One of Architect (2008) Philip Oregon’s most accomplished Niles. Biography of the writers reflects on the celebrated architect of the mysterious connections Central Library, Benson among landscape, memory Hotel, Reed College, and and imagination. the Meier & Frank building. Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Beyond Deserving: A Columbia River, 1810-1913 Novel (1991) Sandra (2000 reprint) Alexander Scofield. A complex, Ross. An historical account moving tale about a of the expedition financed by colorful, contentious clan John Jacob Astor and its living in Southern Oregon.
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