Nicole Lea Helget

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1) Stillwater

Author

Helget, Nicole Lea

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pub. Date

2014.

Physical Desc

326 pages ; 22 cm

Language

English

Description

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"Clement and Angel are fraternal twins separated at birth; they grow up in the same small, frontier logging town of Stillwater, Minnesota. Clement was left at the orphanage; Angel was adopted by the town's richest couple, but is marked and threatened by her mother's mental illness. They rarely meet, but Clement knows if he is truly in need, Angel will come to save him. Stillwater, near the Mississippi River and Canada, becomes an important stop on...

2) Horse camp

Author

Helget, Nicole Lea

Pub. Date

2012

Lexile measure

940L

Physical Desc

291 pages ; 22 cm

Language

English

Description

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Told in their separate voices, twelve-year-old twins Percy and Penny are excited to spend a summer riding horses on their Uncle Stretch's Minnesota spread, until they discover it is a pig farm.

3) The summer of ordinary ways

Author

Helget, Nicole Lea

Pub. Date

2005

Physical Desc

182 pages ; 22 cm

Language

English

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A memoir of Nicole Lea Helget's childhood on a family farm in Minnesota. Helget layers vignettes to create a lyrical story of growing up on a Minnesota farm in the 1980s, where her father suffers from alcoholism and her mother verges on insanity. The eldest of six daughters, Helget presents unforgettable, sometimes hilarious images that spill from a fierce and wondrous childhood into the pages of The Summer of Ordinary Ways.

4) Mongols

Author

Helget, Nicole Lea

Series

Fearsome fighters

Publisher

Creative Education

Pub. Date

c2013

Lexile measure

610L

Physical Desc

1 online resource (48 p.) : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 29 cm.

Language

English

Description

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Examines the history of the Mongols and their emphasis on warfare, as well as how descendents of the Mongols live today.

5) Barbarians

Author

Helget, Nicole Lea

Series

Fearsome fighters

Publisher

Creative Education

Pub. Date

c2013

Lexile measure

610L

Physical Desc

1 online resource (48 p.) : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Language

English

Description

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Explores the history of the Barbarian peoples of northern Europe and how they and their migration patterns led to the fall of the Roman Empire, and what happened afterward.

6) The turtle catcher

Author

Helget, Nicole Lea

Pub. Date

2009

Physical Desc

288 pages ; 22 cm

Language

English

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A young woman's secret may tear her rural Minnesota community apart, in this "emotional tale of star-crossed love, vengeance and regret" (Publishers Weekly). In the tumultuous days after World War I, Herman Richter returns from the front to find his only sister, Liesel, allied with Lester Sutter, the "slow" son of a rival clan who spends his days expertly trapping lake turtles. Liesel has sought Lester's friendship in the wake of her parents' deaths...

7) The end of the wild

Author

Helget, Nicole Lea

Publisher

Little, Brown and Company

Pub. Date

2017.

Edition

First edition.

Lexile measure

610L

Physical Desc

266 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Language

English

Description

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"Eleven-year-old Fern helps to take care of her impoverished family by foraging for food in the forest, but when a fracking company rolls into town, she realizes that her peaceful woods and her family's livelihood could be threatened"--

8) Wonder at the edge of the world

Author

Helget, Nicole Lea

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD

Description

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Lu Wonder, a bright, curious girl who hopes to be a scientist, sets out from her Kansas home in 1855 with her best friend Eustace, a slave, on a journey to Antarctica to protect a mysterious artifact and hide it from the man responsible for her father's death.

9) Be good, Peanut Butter!

Author

Helget, Nicole Lea

Publisher

River Horse Publishing

Pub. Date

[2022]

Edition

First edition.

Physical Desc

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Language

English

Description

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"After his family rushes out the door for the first day of school, Peanut Butter the dog finds himself all alone for the first time. Bored, curious, and lonely, Peanut Butter sneaks out of the house in search of an adventure. He encounters new animals, explores new places, smells new smells, and even makes a friend. But before he realizes it, the day is nearly over, and he must race home before the kids get off the bus and find out he hasn't exactly...