Books like When Esther Morris headed West by Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge

A charming first look at early American pioneer life, following young Laura Ingalls and her family as they live in a simple Wisconsin cabin, learn chores, and grow together on the Big Woods frontier.

A story about friendship, bullying, and the importance of acceptance in a small town school setting.

Sarah, Plain and Tall Saga

When Laura Ingalls and her family leave Wisconsin, they trek west to Kansas Territory, settle on the prairie, and begin a new life—only to be drawn into a dangerous conflict.

When Hattie turns twelve, she meets her newly discovered uncle and forms an unexpected friendship with a carnival girl, discovering family secrets and new adventures in her small town.

Westward the Women chronicles the diverse lives of women who helped shape the American frontier, from scholars and missionaries to suffragists and pioneers, drawing on archives, museums and oral histories.

"Throughout my childhood, my grandmother Yasmina, who was illiterate and grew up in a harem, repeated that to travel is the best way to learn and to empower yourself. "When a woman decides to use her wings, she takes big risks," she would tell me, but she was convinced that if you didn't use them, it hurt ...". "So recalls Fatema Mernissi at the outset of her new book. Of all the lessons she learned from her grandmother - whose home was, after all, a type of prison - the most central was that the opportunity to cross boundaries was a sacred privilege. Indeed, in journeys both physical and mental, Mernissi has spent virtually all of her life traveling - determined to "use her wings" and to renounce her gender's alleged legacy of powerlessness.". "For her book's inspired central metaphor, Mernissi turns to the ancient Islamic tradition of oral storytelling, illuminating her grandmother's feminized, subversive, and highly erotic take on Scheherazade's wife-preserving tales from The Arabian Nights - and then ingeniously applying them to her own lyrically embellished personal narrative. Interwoven with vivid ruminations on her childhood, her education, and her various international travels are the author's piquant musings on a range of deeply embedded societal conditions that add up, Mernissi argues, to a veritable "Western harem.""--BOOK JACKET.