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Addy Lockwood's mother died when she was little, so Addy traveled with her father's Wild West Show and became an amazingly skillful trick rider, likened by some to the famous Annie Oakley. When her father died, she continued to work with the show, having nowhere else to go. Now Addy has discovered that "Uncle" Jason, the show's manager, has driven the show into debt, and he's absconded with what little money was left. Devastated, Addy decides to try...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
820L
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English
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Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp in the Dakota Territory and plan for their own homestead, but the influx of land-hungry people threaten their homestead claim.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 7
Little House books volume 07
Little house.Laura years volume 07
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Little House books volume 07
Little house.Laura years volume 07
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
850L
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English
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Pa's homestead thrives, Laura gets her first job in town, blackbirds eat the corn and oats crops, Mary goes to college, and Laura gets into trouble at school, but becomes a certified school teacher.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
560L
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English
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Only twelve-year-old Colleen knows that her baby sister died just after she was born and that Colleen put another baby in her place, until the baby's father shows up and makes trouble for her and her family on the South Dakota prairie in the 1860s.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 6
Little house books volume 06
Little house books volume 6
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Little house books volume 06
Little house books volume 6
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
790L
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English
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"The town of De Smet is hit with terrible, howling blizzards and Laura and her family must ration their food and coal. When the supply train doesn't arrive, Almanzo Wilder and his brother realize something must be done. They begin an impossible journey in search of provisions, before it's too late"--P. [4] of cover.
8) Free land
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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David Beaton and his bride arrive in Dakota Territory in the 1880s to claim three hundred acres of grassland, and find themselves in a constant struggle against the forces of nature.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 9
Wilder Laura Ingalls volume 9
Wilder Laura Ingalls volume 09
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Wilder Laura Ingalls volume 9
Wilder Laura Ingalls volume 09
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1030L
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English
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Fifteen-year-old Laura learns that living away from home and teaching school can be a bit frightening when most of the students are taller than she is, but every week Almanzo Wilder arrives to take her to her family for the weekend.
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[1927]
Lexile measure
830L
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English
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Giants in the Earth follows a Norwegian pioneer family's struggles with the land and the elements of the Dakota Territory as they try to make a new life in America. The book is based partly on Rølvaag's personal experiences as a settler, and on the experiences of his wife's family who had been immigrant homesteaders. The novel depicts snow storms, locusts, poverty, hunger, loneliness, homesickness, the difficulty of fitting into a new culture, and...
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