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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Our greatest African American poet's award-winning first novel, about a black boy's coming-of-age in a largely-white Kansas town When first published in 1930, Not Without Laughter established Langston Hughes as not only a brilliant poet and leading light of the Harlem Renaissance but also a gifted novelist. In telling the story of Sandy Rogers, a young African American boy in small-town Kansas, and of his family--his mother, Annjee, a housekeeper...
2) Prairie fire
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Jack Cornwall has lost everything he's everything he's ever fought for, everything he's ever loved. He's lost his home, the Confederacy and its goal for a new and vital nation, and now his little nephew, Chipper.
3) Prairie rose
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Rosenbloom Cotton Mills, known as Rosie, has spent her entire 19 years in an orphanage in Kansas City, Missouri. Then, in May of 1865, Rosie saves Seth Hunter from an attack by his brother-in-law. Seeing a chance to escape the orphanage, Rosie accompanies Seth and his son, Chipper, out west to act as their housekeeper. Rosie soon falls in love with Seth but feels she can never marry because she was an illegitimate child. Eventually, her Bible reading...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Evelyn Bucknow is happy living with her single mother, Tina, in a small apartment outside Kerrville, Kansas, until Tina's failed romance with her married boss leaves her jobless and desperate, forcing Evelyn to distance herself and turn to her conventional grandmother for help.
5) Gilead
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In 1956, toward the end of Rev. John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. This is also the tale of wisdom forged during his solitary life and how history lives through generations, pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten.
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
After a whirlwind marriage to the San Celina Police Chief Gabe Ortiz, Benni is excited to visit his hometown in Kansas. At a rowdy backyard barbecue, she meets Tyler Brown, an aspiring country music singer with a promising future and a mysterious past. Everyone is shocked when Tyler's life is cut short by murder. And while Gabe is out of his jurisdiction, Benni is free to step in to do some sleuthing of her own.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After a series of suicide-killings and a deadly storm, the residents of the town of Oleander, Kansas, start acting even more strangely than would be expected. Only the five witnesses of the murders retain their sound minds, and must band together to save the town from whatever has come over it"-- Provided by publisher.
9) The mark
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
While in Kansas living with an aunt she never knew existed and taking a course in philosophy, sixteen-year-old Cass struggles to learn what, if anything, she should do with her ability to see people marked to die within a day's time.
10) Blood and salt
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Ash Larkin finds out her family is involved in a centuries-old saga of love and murder, alchemy and immortality when she follows her mother to an isolated settlement in the cornfields of Kansas"--
11) Gabriel's story
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Gabriel Lynch, an African-American teenager who has moved with his mother from New York to live on his stepfather's Kansas homestead, brings serious trouble down upon himself and his family when he leaves the farm to join a group of cowboys who turn out to be a gang of criminals.
12) The iron marshal
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Tom Shanaghy is tough, but when he becomes marshal, he will have to prove he is tough enough to overcome the resentment of the townspeople and outwit gold thieves.
13) The house
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Told in their separate voices, Gavin, a loner outcast, and Delilah, back in small-town Kansas after years at a Massachusetts boarding school, reconnect their senior year, but as their relationship deepens, it is clear that the eerie house Gavin dwells in will do anything to keep the two apart.
14) The Monument
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Rocky knows that her dark skin and leg brace make her stand out and are what kept her from adopted fro so long. So when she finally arrives at her new home in Bolton, Knasas, she feels she has lucked out, even if she is a little bored.
17) Jim Dandy
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
Living after the Civil War on a Kansas homestead with his stern stepfather, thirteen-year-old Caleb raises a beloved colt and becomes involved in General Custer's raids on the Cheyenne.
18) Far from Xanadu
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
460L
Language
English
Description
In a small Kansas town, sixteen-year-old Mary-Elizabeth "Mike" Szabo tries to come to terms with her father's suicide and her own homosexuality.
Author
Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Depicts the wide variety of experiences of Buffalo Bill Cody, from his early years as a mule driver, Pony Express rider, cavalry scout, Indian fighter, and buffalo hunter to becoming a celebrity with his "Wild West Show".
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