Janette Oke
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
A captivating story of a young girl who must assume responsibility for raising her younger siblings. As the challenges intensify, she is determined in her faith to raise them as her mother would have wanted.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
With schooling behind him, Josh wonders what else life holds. Should he continue his studies and become a pastor? Is he to help his aging grandpa and uncle on the farm? With his friends moving on, Josh feels like his life has drifted to a standstill.
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Series
Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Shy, sensitive, and a bit self-conscious, Anna Trent is the oldest daughter of a family of seven. When a young pastor asks Anna to marry him, she agrees despite her feelings of not meeting all the criteria for a minister's wife and feeling guilty about leaving her mother with all the work. Anna must discover that in the sight of the Lord, she truly is "a woman of worth."
Author
Series
Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Well-known and loved storyteller Janet Oke presents a beautifully told tale in her best tradition. With both anticipation and anxiety, Donnigan, a man surviving on the Western frontier alone, and Kathleen, a young girl thousands of miles away with limited prospects of finding a husband and stirrings of adventure in her heart, are at last united to begin their lives together.
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Series
Song of Acadia volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Learning of their beloved father's precariously ill health, Anne and Nicole make separate plans to visit him in Georgetown, in spite of the dangerous instability of the times. Nicole travels from Massachussetts with her fiancé, while Anne and her husband must brave an arduous transatlantic crossing from England. But the hazards of travel are not to be compared to the events or struggles with which each of these "sisters of the heart" must ultimately...
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English
Description
"As a young girl, Lillian Walsh lost both her parents and a younger sister. Now in her twenties, after enduring the death of her adoptive mother, Lillian must find her place in the world. Just as her adoptive father is leaving for an extended trip to his native Wales, a lawyer appears at the door to inform Lillian that she has inherited a small estate from her birth parents--and that the sister she had long believed dead is likely alive.When she discovers...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
"Marty and Clark Davis arrive home from a visit out west with daughter Missie knowing there are changes ahead for them. But are they prepared for the changes that have taken place while they were gone? Clare and Kate are eagerly awaiting their new baby, but what lies ahead will test their fate in unimagined ways. Luke wants to become a doctor, but his studies will take him far from home. Ellie has blossomed into a lovely young woman, but is there...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Virginia and Jonathan care for young Mindy, the daughter of Virginia's childhood friend. The troubled young mother has drifted in and out of her daughter's life over the years, and now she suddenly reappears. Through it all. Virginia learns a reliance on God she didn't know was possible, growing through daily encounter and unexpected situations into a woman of strength and character.
12) A quiet strength
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In the third book of the Prairie Legacy series, Virginia Simpson's courtship with an old beau is rekindled and the couple marries. The early days of marriage prove difficult. As Jonathan builds their home and starts his business, the newlyweds have little time for one another, and when Jonathan's grandmother moves in, Virginia mourns the lack of privacy. Things are further complicated when the couple takes in the child of an old friend who is an alcoholic....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Josh was being raised by his eighteen-year-old Aunt Lou. When he overheard Grandpa and Uncle Charlie talking about finding a fella for her, he knew something had to be done so his special family would not be broken up. Then, when that poor preacher came along, it really got complicated!
14) The tender years
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Series
Prairie Legacy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In spite of the Christian faith she has learned from her grandparents, Marty and Clark Davis, and the rest of her family, Virginia finds the transition from childhood to adulthood difficult, as she copes with restrictions she finds unreasonable and her friendship with Jenny, whose way of life offers greater freedom.
Author
Series
Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
No one in the town of Calder Springs was prepared for the news of the mill closing. John and Julia Harrigan and their two daughters had lived a quiet, prosperous life in Calder Springs, and now their dreams for their family seem to be crumbling around them. Though Julia is an unlikely candidate to lead an effort to change the grim reality facing the town, she forges ahead to find a way to save the town and the home she loves.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Belinda, Marty and Clark Davis's "surprise child," has always had a tender and compassionate heart toward anything hurt and broken. Her parents watch with both misgivings and genuine pride as Belinda's older brother, Doctor Luke, influences her toward nursing. Will she have the inward strength to face the "hurt and broken" people whose bodies, minds, and emotions need mending? Belinda's niece, who is also a teenager, comes to live with the Davis family...
Author
Series
Prairie Legacy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
As graduation day approaches, eighteen-year-old Virginia Simpson is more than ready to head off to college, reunite with her childhood sweetheart, and finally be allowed to embrace the freeedom of adulthood. But when a family crisis forces her to abandon her carefully laid plans, Virginia learns the deeper meaning of "growing into adulthood." - Back cover.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Raised as siblings, they had learned true compassion from the examples of Elizabeth and Wynn. Now as adults, Christine has moved to a nearby city. Working as a secretary in a prosperous company, she is drawn to her employer's handsome son. Henry has joined the Canadian Mounties, where one of his first duties is to help a young widow and her infant. In their new lives, as new relationships grow, can Christine and Henry still draw on the faith they...
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Series
Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
A mother and daughter try to restore their bonds after the girl returns from boarding school.
Sarah Perry, hoping to provide her daughter with opportunities for a better life, sends Rebecca east to boarding school while she stays behind to run her late husband's freight-hauling business, but over the years the gulf between mother and daughter widens, and when Rebecca does finally come home, Sarah struggles to bridge the gap.
20) Sustaining faith
Author
Series
When hope calls volume 2
Language
English
Description
"So much has been accomplished. Lillian Walsh has stepped out courageously beyond what she'd ever dreamed of being able to achieve. She and her newly rediscovered sister, Grace, have settled three children from England into new Canadian homes and are prepared to place two more just after the New Year, when it happens--another painful disruption. A white lie the sisters used to protect some orphans has resulted in an official complaint and a letter...