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1) A Lost Lady
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"Written from the perspective of a male narrator, Willa Cather's classic novel is an Amercian version of "Madame Bovary". It is a portrait of a talented woman trapped in the conventions and economic restraints of a marriage. It is the story of a woman who defies expectations, and whose personal changes coincide with the transforming American Frontier. In this work, Willa Cather expressed her profoundly modern feminist views in the life of an ordinary...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
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Thorliff Bjorklund has been writing since he was a young boy and now longs to attend college to study journalism. But his father has other plans for him and refuses to agree. Loving and respecting his parents.Thorliff dreads going against his father's wishes and cannot imagine any honorable way to .
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In the frigid days of February, 1870, Caroline Ingalls and her family leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and the warm bosom of her family, for a new life in Kansas Indian Territory. Packing what they can carry in their wagon, Caroline, her husband Charles, and their little girls, Mary and Laura, head west to settle in a beautiful, unpredictable land full of promise and peril. In adapting to this strange new place and transforming...
5) My Antonia
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
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1010L
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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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House of Winslow volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
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870L
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English
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The Winslow family came over on the Mayflower and have been firmly rooted in the colonies ever since. With the coming of the American Revolution, their loyalties are tested as family members find themselves on opposite sides in the war for freedom.
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
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680L
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English
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Berta has spent much of her life striving to be the opposite of her adorable sister, Glenna. As Glenna grows into a vivacious and outgoing young wife and mother, Berta carefully molds herself into a prim spinster and dependable member of her family. But her aloofness and pride must exact a price. Soon, Berta will need to examine her soul for the true motives at work in her heart.
8) West
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When widowed mule breeder Cy Bellman reads in the newspaper that colossal ancient bones have been discovered in the salty Kentucky mud, he sets out from his small Pennsylvania farm to see for himself if the rumors are true: that the giant monsters are still alive and roam the uncharted wilderness beyond the Mississippi River. Promising to write and to return in two years, he leaves behind his only daughter, Bess, to the tender mercies of his taciturn...
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Robert Morgan's first novel unfolds through the voices of three generations of Appalachian storytellers. In the first segment, adventurous teenager Petal runs off with a handsome homesteader in 1772. She tells of setting up housekeeping on the frontier, including the story of birthing her first baby while staving off a panther. In 1816, Petal's grandson uses a starved pig to track the best route for building a route down the mountain to market. In...
13) The Baron range
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Young Anson Baron has always known cattle-ranching was dangerous, that he could be trampled or gored by the Barons' mighty longhorns. With his father, Martin, nowhere to be found, Anson comes of age as he confronts new dangers: revenge, betrayal, and treachery.
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Beneath the burning ground volume 3
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Jonathan Ware, who homesteaded with his family in Kansas before the war broke out, was killed by raiders. His elder son is in the regular Confederate Army, his younger son is fighting on the side of the Union. His widow and two daughters, have sought refuge from the constant raids in a hidden valley with other women and children.
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Sarah Agnes Prine novels volume 2
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In 1906, Sarah Agnes Prine's family struggles to hold on to their land and faith during a three-year drought, and their hardships only continue when they learn Sarah's brother and his family have been trapped in the Great San Francisco Earthquake.
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Beneath the burning ground volume 1
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The Wares are only one of the families that will soon be caught up in the burning issue of slavery with raids from the Border Ruffians out of Missouri and John Brown's small army devoted to ending slavery and helping runaways to escape to the north. To aid and abet a runaway slave is a crime that carries a dear price.
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Westward America! volume 3
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"Jonah Wilde has always had an untamed spirit, and he will stop at nothing to achieve his dream of building a farming empire in the wild prairies of Indiana. But in 1810, the Shawnee Indians still call these prairies home, and a disastrous and violent encounter with the Shawnee changes everything for the Wilde family. Jonah's young wife, Sadie, and his three-year-old son, Paul, are left to fend for themselves at Tippecanoe. Her dreams in tatters,...
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