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Series
(Fairly) true tales volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Relates the tale of Rumpelstiltskin's childhood and youth, explaining why his name is so important, how he is able to spin straw into gold, and why a first-born child is his reward for helping the miller's daughter-turned-queen.
Shurtliff does more than spin words into gold--she gets us rooting for Rumpelstiltskin, a most magical feat.
Author
Language
English
Description
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.
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.
Author
Series
Flat Stanley's worldwide adventures volume 1
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Ever since Stanley was flattened by a bulletin board, every trip is an adventure! The whole Lambchop family is off to see Mount Rushmore. But when Flat Stanley and his brother, Arthur, team up with a scrappy cowgirl named Calamity Jasper, their vacation turns into the Wild West experience of a lifetime. Pretty soon, they find themselves in a real tight spot--even for a flat boy like Stanley!
Author
Series
Claude books (Joan Lowery Nixon) volume 3
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
A zany Texas couple, Shirley and Claude, grow up and meet out in the gold mining hills of Colorado.
6) Big Maria
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
There's gold in them thar hills or more precisely, in Arizona's Chocolate Mountains, where one hundred years ago a miner stashed a king's ransom of the stuff. But times have changed. The world has changed. And now the Chocolate Mountains are the home of the largest military artillery range in the world. Harry's living on disability and getting liquored up and beaten down. Frank's a feisty old-timer battling cancer and a domineering daughter. And Ricky's...
Author
Series
Flat Stanley's worldwide adventures volume no. 1
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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.
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