Abarat
by Clive Barker
Candy Quackenbush of Chickentown, Minnesota, journeys to the Abarat, an archipelago filled with strange wonders, and has a curious revelation: she has been here before, and it is her responsibility to save this mysterious place from the evil forces that threaten it.
The Amish of Harmony
by Drucilla Milne
Describes Amish life around Harmony, MN: when they came, their history and beliefs, their homes, people, schools, secrets, church andsocial life, etc.
Blackwater Ben
by William Durbin
Thirteen-year-old Ben Ward drops out of school and joins his father working as a cook at the Blackwater Logging Camp in Minnesota in the winter of 1898.
Dear Papa
by Anne Ylvisaker
In September of 1943, one year after her father's death, nine-year-old Isabelle begins writing him letters, which are interspersed with letters to other members of her family, relating important events in her life and how she feels about them
Early Candlelight/ story of fort snelling
by Maud Hart Lovelace
Young Deedee DuGay knew everyone at Fort Snelling in the 1830's, and though far above her social class, dares to fall in love with Jasper Page, the leading fur trader in the territory. Their story is a rich and romantic re-creation of an important time in Minnesota's history.
Hometown
by Marsha Qualey
Just before the 1991 Gulf War begins, sixteen-year-old Border Baker moves to a small town with his father, a Vietnam War draft resister.
Land of the buffalo bones : the diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, an English girl in Minnesota
by Marion Dane Bauer
Fourteen-year-old Polly Rodgers keeps a diary of her 1873 journey from England to Minnesota as part of a colony of eighty people seeking religious freedom, and of their first year struggling to make a life there, led by her father, a Baptist minister
A Rising Star of Rusty Nail
by Lesley M.M. Blume
In the small town of Rusty Nail, Minnesota, in the early 1950s, musically talented ten-year-old Franny wants to take advanced piano lessons from newcomer Olga Malenkov, a famous Russian musician suspected of being a communist spy by gossipy members of the community
Scarface
by Peter Nelson
Do you believe in ghosts? Sometimes they come in handy...such as a publicity stunt to save a failing resort. Trouble is, it seems the story has also brought back old Scarface himself. Al Capone is back, looking for his treasure.
Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon
by John H. Watson
Millett's Sherlock Holmes adventure, told as though written by Dr. Watson, places the detective and his assistant on the trail of an arsonist threatening railroad baron James J. Hill and the success of the Great Northern Railway in 1894.
Soldier's Heart
by Gary Paulson
Eager to enlist, fifteen-year-old Charley has a change of heart after experiencing both the physical horrors and the mental anguish of Civil War combat.
Song of Sampo Lake
by William Durbin
In 1900, as a family of Finnish immigrants begins farming on the edge of a Minnesota lake, Matti works as a store clerk, teaches English, and works on the homestead, striving to get out of his older brother's shadow and earn their father's respect.
A Taste of Smoke
by Marion Dane Bauer
Thirteen-year-old Caitlin looks forward to the camping trip with her older sister in the woods of Northern Minnesota, but she doesn't count on the intrusion of her sister's boyfriend or the ghost of a boy who died in the fire that destroyed the forest a century before.
Too Big a Storm
by Marsha Qualey
When serious worrier Brady Callahan meets vivacious Sally Cooper, daughter of a wealthy Minnesota family, they develop a close friendship that helps them both grow and survive during the turbulent Vietnam War era.
The Winter Room
by Gary Paulson
A young boy growing up on a northern Minnesota farm describes the scenes around him and recounts his old Norwegian uncle's tales of an almost mythological logging past.
Oh! Great list! I need to read some of these!
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