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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
770L
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English
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In 1861, while living with his foster parents at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, twelve-year-old Mike Kelly and his best friend Todd Blakely join the Union army as drummer boys but their dreams of glory end when they experience the full horrors of war at the Battle of Wilson's Creek in Missouri.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 500L
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English
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"In this enduring and internationally popular novel, Mark Twain combines social satire and dime-novel sensation with a rhapsody on boyhood and on America's pre-industrial past. Tom Sawyer is resilient, enterprising, and vainglorious. In a series of adventures along the banks of the Mississippi, he usually manages to come out on top. From petty triumphs over his friends and over his long-suffering Aunt Polly, to his intervention in a murder trial,...
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Little house (HarperCollins). Rose years volume 1
Little House the Rocky Ridge years volume 01
Little house. Rose years volume 1
Little House the Rocky Ridge years volume 01
Little house. Rose years volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
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An abridged version of the story of Laura Ingalls Wilder, her husband, and seven-year-old daughter, Rose, who in 1894, leave the Ingalls family in Dakota and make the long and difficult journey to Missouri to start a new life.
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Little house (HarperCollins). Rose years volume 2
Little House the Rocky Ridge years volume 02
Little house. Rose years volume 2
Little House the Rocky Ridge years volume 02
Little house. Rose years volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
740L
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English
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Laura and Almanzo Wilder and their eight-year-old daughter Rose continue to work to make Rocky Ridge farm in Missouri their new home.
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A famous country music star is shamed by her sister into going home to look after her bedridden mother. The town is dull, her mother gets on her nerves and the "dork" who had a crush on her in high school is once again after her. But with time she gets used to it, even falls in love with the dork. By the author of That Camden Summer.
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"On the eve of the Civil War, Kirby Jensen is the youngest of three children living on a hardscrabble ranch in Southwestern Missouri. But in 1861, shots were fired in Charleston harbor, and Kirby's father and brother went to war. Smoke Jensen The Beginning follows the Jensen clan during these volatile years, from Civil War battles to border state raids to the kind of frontier justice achieved only by bullets and blood. William W. Johnstone chronicles...
7) Annie Lash
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After the death of her parents, Annie Lash yearned for a man she could give her love to completely. Then a young frontiersman offered her a chance to escape her childhood home. When Annie arrives on the frontier, she discovers hostile Indians, river bandits, and a hidden passion that grows as the strong, young man who fought to tame the wild also begins to tame her stubborn heart.
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Jazz age series (Dorothy Garlock) volume 2
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English
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Anabel Lee and her father have made a middle-of-the-night move from their former home to a remote hilltop house. When a young boy calls to the house, he brings trouble for Anabel and her father.
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"Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the mother of three young boys, works as the maid for a prominent citizen and his family in West Table, Missouri. Her husband is mostly absent, and, in 1929, her scandalous, beloved younger sister is one of the 42 killed in an explosion at the local dance hall. Who is to blame? Mobsters from St. Louis? The embittered local gypsies? The preacher who railed against the loose morals of the waltzing couples? Or could it have been...
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Berry faced an unforgiving frontier with her young stepmother when they left the wagon train to find her father's claim in Missouri. Tappers, rivermen, riffraff and savages stood between Berry and her land. Quick with a musket, she proved she was a match for them all...
11) The edge of town
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Jazz age series (Dorothy Garlock) volume 1
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English
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Julie Jones, a young woman who has been helping her father run the farm and caring for her brothers and sisters since her mother's death, finally finds someone to love when Evan Johnson returns home from the Great War, but her heart is in danger of being broken when Evan is charged with murder.
12) Hideaway home
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Soldier Red Meyers had looked forward to the day he could return to Hideaway, Missouri, and to his sweetheart, Bertie Moennig. But his dreams were shattered when he was wounded in the last stages of World War II in Europe. Bertie was beautiful inside and outshe deserved a whole man. Red was determined to keep his distance.
But a tragedy on the home front brought the couple face-to-face for the first time in years, and now a dangerous mystery...
But a tragedy on the home front brought the couple face-to-face for the first time in years, and now a dangerous mystery...
13) Almost Eden
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From the moment Baptiste Lightbody found beautiful Maggie in the Missouri Territory, he knew they were two parts of the same spirit. Shunned by a world that called him a half-breed, and her a witch, they brave the wilderness to find a paradise of their own. But Lightfoot and Maggie soon face a test that could break their hearts, or unite them forever.
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Three Irish immigrant children, orphaned in a tenement fire, are sent on the orphan train to Missouri where they are adopted by different families, and although Maelle had vowed to one day reunite with her younger brother and sister, seventeen years later she is about to give up hope.
15) River rising
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Jazz age series (Dorothy Garlock) volume 4
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English
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Dorothy Garlock brings back the beloved Jones clan to weave a stirring tale of life in Depression-Fertile, Missouri, to take her place as Dr. Forbes's new nurse, she's looking forward to life in this picturesque town. And it doesn't disappoint. Even the driving rain can't dim its charm. But while Fertile may seem as pristine as April's starched white uniforms, it's anything but. April will need all her strength to resist Joe Jones, a man who has "heatrtbreaker"...
16) For the record
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"Betsy Huckabee has big-city dreams, but nobody outside of tiny Pine Gap, Missouri, seems interested in the articles she writes for her uncle's newspaper. Her hopes for independence may be crushed, until the best idea she's ever had comes riding into town. Deputy Joel Puckett didn't want to leave Texas, but unfair circumstances have made moving to Pine Gap his only shot at keeping a badge. Worse, this small town has big problems, and masked marauders...
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Danny Duggin novels volume 2
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English
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One year after their sister rode off to avenge their father's death, Tim and Jed Strange are on the brink of losing the family farm. They head west hoping to find their sister, but find trouble instead. Accused of a murder they didn't commit, they're on the run, and seeking the true killers....
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Missouri, 1992. A packet of letters and a diary written in 1661 captivates Rachel who has been questioning her relationship with her deceased mother. As Rachel reads through Juliana's journey from her aunt and uncle's home in Spain to a convent in Mexico City, she wonders if there's a link between the young woman's life and her own mother's emotional distance.
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