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Hattie volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe. Includes readers guide and a short interview with Kirby Larson following the bibliography.
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Series
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
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.
3) Mr. Tucket
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild.
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Caddie Woodlawn volume 01
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...
5) Wagon wheels
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Shortly after the Civil War a black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act.
7) Swamp Angel
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Along with other amazing feats, Angelica Longrider, also known as Swamp Angel, wrestles a huge bear, known as Thundering Tarnation, to save the winter supplies of the settlers in Tennessee.
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Sarah, plain and tall volume 1
Sarah plain and tall volume 1
LRS large print cornerstone
Sarah plain and tall volume 01
Sarah plain and tall volume 1
LRS large print cornerstone
Sarah plain and tall volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Caleb and Anna, captivated by the mail-order bride their father has invited to come live with them in their prairie home, hope that she will stay. Presented in large-print format.
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Series
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...
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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
Formats
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...
12) One came home
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
In 1871 Wisconsin, thirteen-year-old Georgia sets out to find her sister Agatha, presumed dead when remains are found wearing the dress she was last seen in, and before the end of the year gains fame as a sharpshooter and foiler of counterfeiters.
13) 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.
14) Worth
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After breaking his leg, eleven-year-old Nate feels useless because he cannot work on the family farm in nineteenth-century Nebraska, so when his father brings home an orphan boy to help with the chores, Nate feels even worse.
15) The water seeker
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the hard life, filled with losses, adversity, and adventure, of Amos, son of a trapper and dowser, from 1833 when his mother dies giving birth to him until 1859, when he himself has grown up and has a son of his own.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Determined to find his nineteen-year-old uncle and best friend, Jesse, who left for Colorado to find enough gold to pay the mortgage and save the family's Iowa farm, twelve-year-old Early Whittcomb joins up with a barber, his wife, and his daughter on a wagon train heading for the gold fields near Pike's Peak in 1858.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
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Newbery Award-winning author Susan Patron brings her talents to the beloved Dear America series in this exciting story of a girl growing up in the Wild West, in a California gold mining town.Growing up in the wild gold-mining town of Bodie, California, in the 1880s, Angeline Reddy has seen it all -- saloons, brawls, and a whole lot of desperation. When her father, Bodie's greatest lawyer, is declared murdered, Angie knows deep in her heart that he...
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