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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Curley Hines has lost his father, mother, and brother to coal mining, and now he lives with his grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Wonder Gap, Kentucky--but when the mining company prepares to destroy their mountain he must use the words his grandfather has taught him to save Red Hawk Mountain, even if it means losing the life he loves.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Raised in Portland, Oregon, Cassie adapts quickly when an emergency brings her family to her grandfather's Kentucky farm, where she feels the spirits of her mother and grandmother as she tries to heal the rift between her father and grandfather.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spending the summer before her senior year at a camp for gifted and talented students, Gloria struggles with the recent loss of her grandmother while trying to meet new friends and make the best of her new circumstances.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Natalie's last summer in her small Kentucky hometown is off to a magical start, until she starts seeing the "wrong things.' At first, they're just momentary glimpses her front door is red instead of its usual green, there's a preschool where the garden store should be. But then her whole town disappears for hours, fading away into rolling hils and grazzing buffalo, and Nat knows something isn't right.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Hadley is an angry girl: angry at her mother for embezzling money, angry at her estranged older sister, Beth, whom she has to live with while her mother is in jail, angry at having to move to Kentucky away from her friends, and angry at the world because she has retinitis pigmentosa and is slowly going blind; but then she meets Lila, a rescued pit bull who has not responded to anyone else--so if Hadley can train Lila, maybe the dog can get adopted...
Author
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having been forced to act as mother and housekeeper during Mama's illness, twelve-year-old Amanda has a holiday in Memphis, far removed from the Depression drudgery of her Kentucky mountain family, and finds her world expanding even as she grows to understand and appreciate her own background.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Formats
Description
At summer camp Jane feels like an outsider among the cliquish rich girls who board their horses at Sunny Acres farm, and when the horse she has been riding is sold to another camper, she feels even worse until her teacher asks her to help train a beautiful but skittish new horse, and the experience brings out the best in her.
Author
Series
Great escapes (HarperCollins) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
"In this retelling of an episode from Uncle Tom's Cabin, the slave Eliza Harris resolves to escape with her two-year-old son across the frozen Ohio River to prevent her master from selling the boy. Includes historical notes on Harriet Beecher Stowe, slavery in America, the Fugitive slave laws, and the Underground Railroad"--Title verso page.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
In the 1970s, twelve-year-old Chili Sue Mahoney longs to escape her tiny Kentucky home town and see the world, but she also learns to recognize beauty in the people and places around her.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Jamie Jo's fear of bees keeps her inside most of the time, but a series of events that begins when her mother is excluded from the church choir brings about many changes, including new friendships and greater trust in God.
Author
Series
Postcard mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
"When Piper and Peter Post find a curious postcard from Kentucky, they get most suspicious! After all, it's addressed "Dear bats," and they don't think the writer means baseball bats. So they set off on a family vacation to a famous, enormous bat-filled cave in--where else? Kentucky--to solve the postcard mystery"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
In the segregated south of Kentucky in 1953, twelve-year-olds Callie, who is black, and Wendell, who is white, are brought together by an old dog that is clearly seeking something or someone, but they not only face prejudice, they find trouble at a haunted cabin in the woods.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Ricki Jo, a Kentucky farm girl, learns that popularity is not all she hoped it would be when the huge changes she makes in her personality and style seem to do more to drive away old friends than to win new ones.
Author
Series
American chillers volume 27
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
While hiking in the forest in Paducah, Kentucky, Jason Bradford and his sister, Jillian, spot a lizard in a tree. However, this is a species of lizard they've never seen before. It's nearly two feet long--and vicious.
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