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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 32
Lexile measure
1210L
Language
English
Description
"The Last of the Mohicans is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War (the Seven Years' War), when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. During this war, both the French and the British used Native American allies, but the French were particularly dependent, as they were outnumbered in the Northeast frontier areas by the more numerous British colonists. The novel is primarily set in the upper New York wilderness, detailing...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
The adventures continue for Laura Ingalls and her family as they leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and set out for Kansas. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the best spot to build their little house on the prairie. Soon they are planting and plowing, hunting wild ducks and turkeys, and gathering grass for their cows. Sometimes pioneer life is hard, but Laura and her folks are always busy and happy...
3) My Antonia
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
After the death of his parents, Jim was sent to live with his grandparents in Black Hawk Nebraska. There he befriended Antonia, the daughter of Bohemian immigrants. Years later, Jim, now a successful lawyer in New York, returns to his childhood home and Antonia. Jim's love for Antonia has endured, much as she herself has endured tragic circumstances.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 2
Little House book volume 03
Harper trophy bk
Little house books volume 3
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Little House book volume 03
Harper trophy bk
Little house books volume 3
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
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The adventures continue for Laura Ingalls and her family as they leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and set out for Kansas. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the best spot to build their little house on the prairie. Soon they are planting and plowing, hunting wild ducks and turkeys, and gathering grass for their cows. Sometimes pioneer life is hard, but Laura and her folks are always busy and happy...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the adventures of eleven-year-old Caddie growing up with her six brothers and sisters on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century. At age 11, Caddie Woodlawn is the despair of her mother and the pride of her father: a clock-fixing tomboy running wild in the woods of Wisconsin. In 1864, this is a bit much for her Boston-bred mother to bear, but Caddie and her brothers are happy with the status quo. Written in 1935 about Carol...
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 6
Little house books volume 06
Little house books volume 6
LRS large print cornerstone
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Little house books volume 06
Little house books volume 6
LRS large print cornerstone
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
"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.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 7
Little House books volume 07
Little house.Laura years volume 07
LRS cornerstone
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Little House books volume 07
Little house.Laura years volume 07
LRS cornerstone
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Laura loves her prairie home, but knows it is time for her to serious about getting a teachers certificate so she can help Ma and Pa pay for her sister Mary's education at the college for the blind.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
"Laura's teaching position forces her to live away from home for the first time. Only one thing gets her through the lonely weeks - every weekend, Almanzo Wilder arrives at the school to take Laura home for a visit"--P. [4] of cover..
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 4
Little House books volume 04
Little house.Laura years volume 04
LRS large print cornerstone
Little House books volume 04
Little house.Laura years volume 04
LRS large print cornerstone
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
At first, the Ingalls lived in a sod house in Minnesota. Then Pa built a clean new house beside Plum Creek, buying the materials for it on credit, intending to pay for them with the fall wheat harvest. But just before the harvest, a strange glittering cloud suddenly blocked out the sun. Plunk! Something dropped on Laura's head, and fell to the ground. It was the biggest grasshopper she had ever seen. Millions of them descended over the country-side...
10) Sackett's land
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
This is the first half of the story of Barnabus, the patriarch of the Sackett clan, and his migration to North America in 1600. His saga begins when he discovers a purse of gold coins in the mud of Devil's Dyke in Finland. On the run from English authorities, he meets and marries Abigail Tempany, the daughter of a sea captain. Nick Bardle, the master of a merchant vessel, the Jolly Jack, is half pirate, ready to take any advantage of any activity...
11) Farmer boy
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
While Laura Ingalls grows up in a little house on the western prairie, Almanzo Wilder is living on a big farm in New York State. Almanzo and his brother and sisters help with the summer planting and fall harvest. In winter there is wood to be chopped and great slabs of ice to be cut from the river and stored. Almanzo wishes for just one thing-his very own horse-but he must prove that he is ready for such a big responsibility.
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Great western edition volume 25
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English
Description
Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872-October 23, 1939) was an American author and dentist best known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) was his bestselling book. The success of Grey's The Lone Star Ranger (the novel was adapted into four movies: 1914, 1919, 1930, and 1942, and a comic book in 1949) and King of the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
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.
14) The deerslayer
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.2 - AR Pts: 44
Lexile measure
1340L
Language
English
Description
Natty Bumppo, a young white hunter brought up in the Delaware Indian tribe, has to defend settlers before returning to the Iroquois who have allowed him parole.
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Lexile measure
800L
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English
Description
On a trip to buy ponies, Frank Ross is shot dead by Tom Chaney, one of his own workers, for a horse, 150 dollars cash, and two California gold pieces. When Ross's unusually single-minded fourteen -year-old daughter, Mattie, arrives to claim his body, she discovers that the authorities are doing nothing to find Chaney. Then she hears of Rooster Cogburn--an ornery U.S. Marshall who, she's told, has grit and convinces him to join her in a quest into...
16) Betty Zane
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English
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1782 - the Ohio River settlements. The land along the Ohio River is newly settled. Indomitable men and women - Col. Zane and his family, the McCollochs, Wetzel, the "Death Wind" Indian killer, among them - have hewn a life out of the frontier wilderness, building homesteads and farms around the stockade and blockhouse of Fort Henry. All about them is the seemingly impenetrable forest, haunt of white renegades and hostile Indian tribes - the...
17) Galloway
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Flagon and Galloway Sackett were just looking for a place to start ranching. They found a big, wide, lonely country and, at first, plenty of room. Then Bull Dunn and his two sons decided they wanted it all. When the battle for possession of the land began, Flagon was already in bad shape. He had been taken by Apache Indians, and by the time he escaped, just surviving left him in no condition for any kind of trouble. Bull Dunn's son, Curly, was...
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"In the law of the gun, a man must shoot his way to innocence. At least that's how Captain McKelly of the Texas Rangers puts it to Buck Duane. On the run for killing a man to save his own skin, Duane must now infiltrate the deadly Chelsedine gang. These ruthless rustlers are running amok in Texas and it's going to take a matchless gunfighter to stop their rampage. With the legendary Rangers providing firepower, Duane has more than a fighting chance....
20) Mojave crossing
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
"In Mojave Crossing, Louis L'Amour takes William Tell Sackett on a treacherous passage from the Arizona goldfields to the booming town of Los Angeles. Tell Sackett was no ladies' man, but he could spot trouble easily enough. And Dorinda Robiseau was the kind of trouble he wanted to avoid at any time--even more so when he had thirty pounds of gold in his saddlebags and a long way to travel. But when she begged him for safe passage to Los Angeles, Sackett...
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