Lucy Johnston Sypher wrote a series of four children's books based loosely on her childhood in the small prairie town of Wales, North Dakota: The Edge of Nowhere (1972), Cousins and Circuses (1974), The Spell of the Northern Lights (1975), and The Turnabout Year (1976).

The Edge of Nowhere
1972
ISBN 9780140345506
Cousins and Circuses
1974
ISBN 9780689301483
The turnabout year
1976
ISBN 9780689305467