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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
680L
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English
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The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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"I am Johannes Verne, and I am not afraid." This was the boy's mantra as he plodded through the desert alone, left to die by his vengeful grandfather. Johannes Verne was soon to be rescued by outlaws, but no one could save him from the lasting memory of his grandfather's eyes, full of impenetrable hatred. Raised in part by Indians, then befriended by a mysterious woman, Johannes grew up to become a rugged adventurer and an educated man. But even now,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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In his first novel to follow the publication of his enormous success, The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck’s vision comes wonderfully to life in this imaginative and unsentimental chronicle of a bus traveling California’s back roads, transporting the lost and the lonely, the good and the greedy, the stupid and the scheming, the beautiful and the vicious away from their shattered dreams and, possibly, toward the promise of the future.
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"A contemporary Western debut about two brothers locked in a deadly feud, a woman on horseback trailing her husband's killer, and the inescapable ties of home and family. When Silas Van Loy flees home on horseback to avoid capture for his brother's murder, he is soon followed by both the police and his brother's wife, Lena, who is intent on exacting revenge. She reluctantly lets her trusted stable assistant join her in a journey across the wilds of...
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Joe Allston is a retired literary agent who is, in his own words, "just killing time until time gets around to killing me." His parents and his only son are long dead, leaving him with neither ancestors nor descendants, tradition nor ties. His job, trafficking the talent of others, had not been his choice. He passes through life as a spectator. A postcard from a friend causes Allston to return to the journals of a trip he had taken years before, a...
10) So little time
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California pioneers McClain and Rya Reardon are a match made in heaven -- but time on earth together may be mercilessly short.
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Trail drive series volume 5
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English
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After hard years of ranching, Gil and Van Austin, two Texas brothers, are eager to sell their well-grazed longhorns in California, and they set out on their journey, encountering Indian attacks, outlaw trouble, and brutal Mother Nature along the way.
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Women of the West volume 1
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English
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1851, Overland Trail to California. As a baby, Callie was left on the doorstep of an isolated farmhouse in Tennessee. The Whitaker family took her in, but have always considered her more a servant than a daughter. Scorned by her two stepsisters, Callie is forced to work long hours and denied an education. But a new world opens to her when the Whitakers join a wagon train to California guided by rugged Luke McGraw A loner haunted by a painful past...
15) The red pony
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
810L
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English
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From the Publisher: Raised on a ranch in northern California, Jody is well-schooled in the hard work and demands of a rancher's life. He is used to the way of horses, too; but nothing has prepared him for the special connection he will forge with Gabilan, a hot-tempered pony his father gives him. With Billy Buck, the hired hand, Jody tends and trains his horse, restlessly anticipating the moment he will sit high upon Gabilan's saddle. But when Gabilan...
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In this savage tale of love, greed, and redemption in America's early frontier, famed lawman, Jon Stoudenmire, is on a quest to find peace at his vineyard paradise. Near his journey's end and anxious to settle down with his true love Elizabeth Thompson, Jon meets up with his long-lost cousin Cliff Stone. Stone asks Jon to stay and join his fight against greedy gold mining magnate George Stanton. Reluctant at first, after a shootout with one of...
18) Of mice and men
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
630L
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English
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Lenny, a mentally retarded child-man, and his lifelong friend George, dream of having their own ranch some day, until unintentional violence brings tragic consequences.
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Westward dreams series volume 2
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English
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After her grandparents' southern home is burned by a departing Union army, Adelaide Pride takes a job as companion to Mrs. Amberley, "an unrefined, disagreeable gossip who is jealous of Addie's natural grace and beauty."--Cover.
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