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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
In 1957, problems at the mine threaten to ruin Christmas for fifth-grader Don, his family, and the rest of their Oklahoma coal town, but Don's bloodhound, Frank, is determined to do whatever it takes to make the holiday special for Don and his six-year-old sister, Susan. Alternate chapters are told from the human and canine points of view.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
460L
Language
English
Description
After the Alden siblings visit their Great-Aunt Jane's ranch in a mining town, there is a mysterious fire which damages three houses, but Benny's friend Mike notices a strange man in a blue hat in the paper and Mike and Benny suspect he may be the culprit.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Curley Hines has lost his father, mother, and brother to coal mining, and now he lives with his grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Wonder Gap, Kentucky--but when the mining company prepares to destroy their mountain he must use the words his grandfather has taught him to save Red Hawk Mountain, even if it means losing the life he loves.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Trina's family left Bohemia for a Colorado coal town to earn money to buy a farm, but by 1901 she doubts that either hard work or hoping will be enough, even after a strange fish seems to grant her sisters' wishes.
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