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1) Arly
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although Arly Poole seems bound to follow in his father's footsteps as a field worker in Jailtown, Florida, where his family lives in 1927 in the shadow of a cruel boss, his world suddenly seems larger when a schoolteacher comes to town.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1938, with the help of a doctor and her elderly, horse-thieving father, a seventeen-year-old orphan steals thirteen horses from Chickalookee, Florida's doomed rodeo, and finds a family in the process.
3) Cowboy ghost
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Growing up without a mother and with an aloof father on a cattle ranch in Florida in the first part of the 1900s has made Titus very close to his older brother, Micah, and determined to make Micah proud of him when the two go on their first cattle drive together.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1932 in Florida, despite his older brother's objections, fifteen-year-old Ladd finds himself, through a series of unforeseen circumstances, traveling alone more than 100 miles to bring back wild horses for the rodeo and for breeding.
5) Hallapoosa
Author
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
A middle-aged bachelor and justice of the peace in Florida, in 1931, has his orderly life changed when he agrees to raise his brother's orphaned children.
7) Arly's run
Author
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Arly, an orphan in search of a home and a family, escapes from a brutal migrant labor camp, joins a traveling religious show, and battles a devastating Florida hurricane.
8) Spanish Hoof
Author
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
The year she turns twelve on Spanish Hoof, her family's beloved ranch in Florida, Harry gets a pony and learns some hard lessons about life.
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