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Author
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having been forced to act as mother and housekeeper during Mama's illness, twelve-year-old Amanda has a holiday in Memphis, far removed from the Depression drudgery of her Kentucky mountain family, and finds her world expanding even as she grows to understand and appreciate her own background.
3) Tadpole
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In rural Kentucky in 1955, Serilda Collins, single mother of four lively girls, discovers that her orphaned nephew is being subjected to brutality.
Author
Series
Fairchild family story volume 2
Language
English
Description
During her first year in a one-room school in the Kentucky hills, Bonnie has many exciting experiences, from getting her first book to playing an angel in a play.
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
In the late 1800s in Kentucky, Amie McBee and her four sisters both fear and torment the reclusive and seemingly sinister Mr. Tominski, but their father continues to provide for his needs.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
In the segregated south of Kentucky in 1953, twelve-year-olds Callie, who is black, and Wendell, who is white, are brought together by an old dog that is clearly seeking something or someone, but they not only face prejudice, they find trouble at a haunted cabin in the woods.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
In the 1970s, twelve-year-old Chili Sue Mahoney longs to escape her tiny Kentucky home town and see the world, but she also learns to recognize beauty in the people and places around her.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
In Kentucky in 1872, when goblins capture the moon, thirteen-year-old Magpie must rise above her family's fighting legacy and put her "cussedness" to use to save the moon and her loved ones, according to "the age-old prophecy."
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Jamie Jo's fear of bees keeps her inside most of the time, but a series of events that begins when her mother is excluded from the church choir brings about many changes, including new friendships and greater trust in God.
Author
Series
Lonesome young volume 01
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Told from both viewpoints, high school juniors Victoria Whitfield and Mickey Rhodale are instantly drawn to one another when financial losses send her from an elite boarding school to her grandmother's Kentucky horse ranch, but a century-old feud and dangerous drug ring conspire to keep the two apart.
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