Jeanette Ingold
1) The Big Burn
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three teenagers battle the flames of the Big Burn of 1910, one of the century's biggest wildfires.
2) Airfield
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1933 fifteen-year-old Beatty hangs around a small Texas airport waiting for visits from her pilot-father from whom she longs to learn about her deceased mother.
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a disastrous concert, a teenage musical prodigy who’s sick of the stress heads to Montana to figure out her next step . . .
From the moment Tess picked up the violin as a child, it was clear she wasn’t like other kids. She was a prodigy, and at sixteen her life is that of a virtuoso-to-be: constant training, special schools, and a big debut before an audience of thousands.
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From the moment Tess picked up the violin as a child, it was clear she wasn’t like other kids. She was a prodigy, and at sixteen her life is that of a virtuoso-to-be: constant training, special schools, and a big debut before an audience of thousands.
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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Coming of age in a rural Texas community in 1918, fifteen-year-old Asia assists in the local war effort, contemplates romance with a local boy, and expands her horizons through her pursuit of photography.
5) The window
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
When she comes to live with relatives on a Texas farm, fifteen-year-old Mandy encounters the grandmother she never knew and begins to come to terms with her blindness caused by the automobile accident that killed her mother.
6) Hitch
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
To help his family during the Depression and avoid becoming a drunk like his father, Moss Trawnley joins the Civilian Conservation Corps, helps build a new camp near Monroe, Montana, and leads the other men in making the camp a success.