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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.
3) Chase
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the coal mining region of mid-nineteenth century eastern Pennsylvania, Phin witnesses a murder and runs for his life, pursued by a mysterious man and a horse with the instincts of a bloodhound.
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
Series
Dog chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1909, a nine-month-old puppy, trained unsuccessfully to be a hunting dog, finds a way to earn his keep when disaster strikes in the coal mine where his boy works.
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.
Author
Series
Trailblazer books volume 6
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
While searching for his younger brother who has been "sold" to be trained as a chimney sweep in eighteenth-century London, thirteen-year-old Ned meets the itinerant preacher John Wesley whose message changes the lives of his entire family.
Author
Series
Survival! volume 7
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1859 when Rory disguises herself as a boy in order to work in a coal mine in St. Claire, Pennsylvania, she and her friend struggle to survive a cave-in disaster.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Tired of his twelve-hour shifts and facing danger daily, Bitty, a canary whose courage more than makes up for his small size, treks to the state capital to try to improve working conditions in coal mines.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Frank Kovacs, a Polish immigrant working in the coal mines of eastern Pennsylvania, begins a correspondence with Theodore Roosevelt after he assumes the presidency on September 14, 1901.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Willa, living in a Depression-era West Virginia mining town, works hard to help her family, experiences love and friendship, and finds an outlet for her writing when her family becomes part of the Arthurdale, West Virginia, community supported by Eleanor Roosevelt.
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