Westward+Expansion

Twain, Mark. **__The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn__**. Recounts the adventures of a young boy and an escaped slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft. **Lexile: 810/920.**

O’Dell, Scott. **__Streams to the River, River to the Sea__**. A young Indian woman, accompanied by her infant and cruel husband, experiences joy and heartbreak when she joins the Lewis and Clark Expedition seeking a route to the Pacific. **Lexile: 740.**

Hudson, Jan. **__Sweetgrass.__** Living on the western Canadian prairie in the nineteenth century, Sweetgrass, a fifteen-year-old Blackfoot Indian girl, saves her family from a smallpox epidemic and proves her maturity to her father. **Lexile: 640**.

McMurtry, Larry. **__Lonesome Dove__**. Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and W.F. Call encounter heroes, outlaws, ladies, Native Americans, and settlers as they move West on a cattle drive. **Lexile: 980**.

Cather, Willa. **__My Antonia__**. When Antonia arrives in Nebraska from the European province of Bohemia with her family, she is unprepared for the dangers and challenges she must face on the farm with its unproductive soil. **Lexile: 1010.**