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Series
Vengeance road volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"When her father is killed by the notorious Rose Riders for a mysterious journal that reveals the secret location of a gold mine, eighteen-year-old Kate Thompson disguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers--and justice"--
3) Fool's gold
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Reluctant to admit that he suffers from claustrophobia and anxious not to alienate his friends, Rudy tries to find a way to distract them from pursuing their plan of exploring an abandoned gold mine.
Author
Series
Dog chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
"In 1900, a dog named Murphy wants to help Sally and Mama build a new life in Nome, but life in the mining town is not easy. Can the three of them find a home--and maybe a fortune?"--
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 52
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a camping trip to Arizona with their grandfather, the Alden children search for a lost gold mine.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
In the "wild west" of an 1880s California gold-mining town, Angeline investigates the supposed murder of her father, a famous criminal lawyer, who she and her mother are certain is still alive. Includes historical notes and instructions for making a mask from muslin.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Mallie knows better than to dream. In Coal Top, you live the story you're given: boys toil in the mines and girls work as servants. Mallie can't bear the idea of that kind of life, but her family is counting on her wages to survive. It wasn't always this way. Before the Dust came, the people of Coal Top could weave starlight into cloth. They'd wear these dreaming clothes to sleep and wake up with the courage to seek adventure...or...
Author
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.
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Series
Flat Stanley's worldwide adventures volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Hoping to escape the attention brought on by the accident that flattened Stanley, the Lambchop family drives to South Dakota, where they become involved in a wild west adventure at Mount Rushmore.
11) Sailing for gold
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
Orphaned Davey lives in Seattle near the turn of the 20th century and does chores for a nasty landlady while saving his money for a ship's passage to Alaska to find his uncle.
12) Bo & Mzzz Mad
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his father dies, Bo Gamage warily moves to the Mojave Desert home of his distant and estranged relatives, the Martinkas, and finds that "Mad" lives up to her name, PawPaw despises him, and Aunt Juna hopes he'll help search for the gold mine that started a family feud.
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