Winnie hates her new house. She hates her new neighborhood. And she hates her new school. Schallenberger Elementary? Who could even pronounce that let alone spell it? And why was this Schallenberger guy important enough to name a school after him? Then, as she's digging through moving boxes, Winnie comes across a journal that contains the story of Moses Schallenberger - and his cat, Biggs. Soon, she finds her self devouring their story, and trying to solve a family mystery! Will Winnie come to realize the importance of her school's namesake? And will she uncover the truth about her great-great-grandma Winnifred in the process?

For use in schools and libraries only. When a young pioneer girl smuggles a cat aboard the wagon train taking her family from Missouri to Oregon, it turns out to be the best thing she could have done.

When a young pioneer girl smuggles a cat aboard the wagon train taking her family from Missouri to Oregon, it turns out to be the best thing she could have done.

When the Bergson family leave their home in Sweden to travel to the United States in search of a better life, they, like many immigrants, are awed by the beautiful harshness of their new life in Nebraska. When their father, John Bergson, grows sick and dies, he leaves the farm in the hands of his eldest daughter Alexandra Bergson. Resourceful and determined, Alexandra devotes her life to her family's farm, determined to prosper even as her neighbors are overwhelmed by the unremitting demands of pioneer life. But when she falls in love with her childhood friend, Carl Linstrum, Alexandra must choose between her duty to the land, and to her heart. A spirited celebration of the immigrants who have shaped the United States, O Pioneers! is a masterpiece by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.