Update: Titles for younger readers have been added.

Laura Ingalls Wilder's 1935 novel Little House on the Prairie features a young girl coming of age amid the homesteading movement. These suggested titles feature accurate portrayals of the period and of Indigenous communities, as well as works with themes of family bonds and migration.

Historical treatment

Grann, David. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI. Crown. ISBN 9780593377352.

Nelson, S.D. Crazy Horse and Custer: Born Enemies. Abrams. ISBN 9781419731938.

Park, Linda Sue. Prairie Lotus. Clarion. ISBN 9781328781505.

Family bonds and new experiences

Finkelstein, Norman H. The Shelter and the Fence: When 982 Holocaust Refugees Found Safe Haven in America. Chicago Review. ISBN 9781641603836.

Higuera, Donna Barba. The Last Cuentista. Levine Querido. ISBN 9781646140893.

Nayeri, Daniel. Everything Sad Is Untrue. Levine Querido. ISBN 9781646140008.

Tahir, Sabaa. All My Rage. Razorbill. ISBN 9780593202340.

Trebincevic, Kenan & Susan Shapiro. World in Between. Clarion. ISBN 9780358439875.

Westover, Tara. Educated. Random. ISBN 9780399590504.

For younger readers

Erdich, Louise. Makoons. (The Birchback House: Bk 5). HarperCollins. ISBN 9780060577933. 

Curtis, Christopher Paul. Elijah of Buxton. Scholastic. ISBN 9780439023443.

Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Journey of Little Charlie. Scholastic. ISBN 9780545156660.

McManis, Charlene Willing with Traci Sorell. Indian No More. Tu Bks. ISBN 9781620148396.

Zia, Farhana. Child of Spring. Peachtree. ISBN 9781561459049.

MacLachlan, Patricia. Sarah, Plain and Tall. HarperCollins. ISBN 9780060241018.

Rylant, Cynthia. Old Town in the Green Groves. HarperCollins. ISBN 9780060295615.

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Shiloh. S. & S./Atheneum. ISBN 9780689316142.

Fleischman, Sid. The Whipping Boy. Greenwillow. ISBN 9780688062163.

Hesse, Karen. Out of the Dust. Scholastic. ISBN 9780590360807.