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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
960L
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English
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The story of a pioneer woman who, as a bride, followed the covered-wagon trail to the Nebraska prairies and lived there the rest of her eighty years. A devoted wife and mother, Abbie Deal brought a large and united family through poverty and hardships often denying herself so the children might have the advantages her talented youth had coveted.
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"Carrie Ballentyne's life was upended in 1845 when she had to leave the only home she'd ever known in the mountains of upstate New York. With her are her widowed mother and younger brother Nathan, but the separation from Bonner, Ballentyne, and Savard relatives weighs heavily. In time Carrie finds footing as a midwife and nurse, but she never feels at ease in the city. So when, a decade later, she receives an invitation from a doctor in Santa Fe to...
6) Sitka
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
Frontiersman, adventurer, and sailor Jean LaBarge devises a plan to rid the Alaska Territory--owned by Russia in the 1840s--of Baron Zinnovy, a Russian who seizes control of the territory's fur trade, killing anyone who dares oppose him.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
910L
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English
Description
"They came by river and by wagon train, braving the endless distances of the Great Plains and the icy passes of the Sierra Nevada. They were men like Linus Rawlings, a restless survivor of Indian country who'd headed east to see the ocean but left his heart - and his home - in the West. They were women like Lilith Prescott, a smart, spirited beauty who fled her family and fell for a gambling man in the midst of a frontier gold boom. There pioneering...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
810L
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English
Description
"Wagon trains heading west were forced to defend themselves against Indians, cope with injuries and illness, and struggle to find food. The group of easterners Rock Bannon was scouting for faced another problem. They were being deceived. When he warned them to remain on the Humboldt Trail, Sharon Crockett and the others refused to listen. Mort Harper, a stranger riding a beautiful black mare, had dazzled them with his charm and good looks. The southern...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 16
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English
Description
This is a rousing, old-fashioned tale that Grey based on the true story of a chapter of Western history&;the deadly feud of the Tonto Basin in Arizona, also known as "The Pleasant Valley War." It might be compared to an Old West Romeo and Juliet with two feuding families and two star crossed sweethearts. Family loyalty, forbidden love, and rivalry between cattle ranchers and sheep herders are all wrapped up in this classic western tale.
11) The Arizona clan
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Ex-gunslinger Dodge Mercer, hungry for the quiet life, drifted west, looking for a spread of his own. He settled in the rugged, dangerous Tonto Basin country, joining up with the Lilley clan. But moonshiner Buck Hathaway held a handful of markers over Lilley's head, riding them heavy into debt and planning on taking over their ranch. The Lilleys seemed helpless and Dodge vowed to save their hides. Even if he stepped into the middle of a blazing showdown--even...
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Those Jensen boys volume 1
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English
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"The sons of Luke Jensen, who supposedly died in the Civil War, and nephews of Smoke Jensen, one of the fiercest gunfighters in the West, find their skills put to the test when two young ladies hire them to protect their struggling stagecoach line from a ruthless mine owner."--
A bold, sprawling epic of the American West, the Jensen family saga has captivated readers for nearly three decades. Now comes the untold story of Smoke Jensen's long-lost...
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When a frontier baron known as the Commodore orders Charlie and Eli Sisters, his hired gunslingers, to track down and kill a prospector named Herman Kermit Warm, the brothers journey from Oregon to San Francisco, and eventually to Warm's claim in the Sierra foothills, running into a witch, a bear, a dead Indian, a parlor of drunken floozies, and a gang of murderous fur trappers.
14) The sky-liners
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
When Flagon and Gallaway Sackett went to the town of Tazewell, Tennessee to pay a debt their father had incurred, they were not looking for trouble. Black Fetchen and his clan had other ideas, but they let the Sacketts get the drop on them. Humiliated, Fetchen swore to get even. He thought he saw a chance to do that when the two men agreed to escort sixteen year old Judith Costello, who had a crush on Fetchen, to her father's ranch in Colorado. With...
15) Sons of thunder
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Slash and Pecos volume 5
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English
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It sounds like an easy job: track down the lady friend of notorious outlaw Duke Winter and bring her in for questioning. There's just one problem: Slash and Pecos have never met a woman like Miss Fannie Diamond, a glamorous showgirl who's prettier than a French poodle, slicker than a Dodge City gambler, and more slippery than a Mojave rattlesnake. She knows that Slash and Pecos are coming for her and has no intention of being caught--not without one...
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690L
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Owen Chantry arrives at his brother Clive's ranch to find him murdered and two squatters occupying his cabin. The unlikely trio--and a beautiful stranger--soon find themselves in a deadly feud with Clive's killers, the Mowatt gang, who return in search of Clive's rumored buried treasure.
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Bury, Idaho was the kind of place that tested mens' resolve. It was wild and unruly and so were its inhabitants: Stratton, Potter, and Richards, three outlaw gunslingers trying to make a place for themselves. A no man's land like Bury seemed the appropriate home for these desperados until Smoke Jensen came to town. Smoke came to this barren frontier with an ax to grind and the desire to see these three miscreants settle down permanately-six feet down....
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
No one in the town of Calder Springs was prepared for the news of the mill closing. John and Julia Harrigan and their two daughters had lived a quiet, prosperous life in Calder Springs, and now their dreams for their family seem to be crumbling around them. Though Julia is an unlikely candidate to lead an effort to change the grim reality facing the town, she forges ahead to find a way to save the town and the home she loves.
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