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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
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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Series
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
Description
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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Series
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
Language
English
Description
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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Language
English
Description
"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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English
Description
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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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
" Laura Rose White is one of the most gifted riverboat pilots on the Missouri River--her late father taught her and her brother Joe everything he knew, and even named their family's riverboat after her. But in 1867, the idea of a "skirt" being a captain is unheard of. At least until Joe takes ill and dies in the middle of a trip, leaving Laura grieving and halfway upriver with a full cargo. She successfully takes charge of the crew and expertly guides...
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English
Description
Lyric Bolton doesn't ask for much--just friendship and acceptance from her rural Missouri community. But her family is regarded with suspicion and fear because of her mother's sickness--a sickness of the mind that grows worse by the day. Lyric is resigned to a life of isolation and doesn't see any way out...but that's before Ian Cawley bolts into her life on a runaway stallion. As she opens her heart to Ian, Lyric dares to imagine a different life....
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English
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"This beautiful novel tells the love story of young Arthur Moses and Nola, and how a young man grew up to become the wise old man known as Arthur Truluv. Set in the 1950s in the warm community of Mason, Missouri, Arthur is a shy, unathletic teenage boy, in love with the most beautiful girl in his class. He is thrilled when they become friends, but he wants more than friendship. Alas, he learns that Nola has a crush on the wrong Moses--Arthur's older...
9) Enemy women
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"Follows Adair, the daughter of modest farmers in the Missouri Ozarks, who is wrongly accused of enemy collaboration by the Union militia, as she falls in love with her interrogator and embarks on a perilous journey to find her family." (Baker & Taylor)
10) The edge of town
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Series
Jazz age series (Dorothy Garlock) volume 1
Language
English
Description
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.
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English
Description
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.
12) High on a hill
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Series
Jazz age series (Dorothy Garlock) volume 2
Language
English
Description
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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English
Description
"Maisie Kentworth is stuck on the ranch. Having fallen in love with the wrong guy, she can't risk inflaming things between her former beau and her protective family. Left to rue her mistakes, she keeps busy exploring the idle mine at the edge of their property. Boone Bragg is also stuck. With his parents on vacation, the management of Bragg Mining falls on him, and one of his advisors wants him as a son-in-law. One wrong move, and Boone will end up...
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English
Description
"Olive Kentworth has spent her life hiding her interest in architecture, even though she pores over architectural books and sketches buildings. When she accepts a job on a home expansion, it's only because her cousin Amos agrees to pose as the builder. To further hide her involvement, Olive takes a position as a nanny--not knowing that she'll be working for her idol, Joplin's leading architect, widower Maxfield Scott. Maxfield is intrigued by his...
15) Death rattle
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Series
Guns of Samuel Pritchard volume 01
Language
English
Description
In 1863, a teenaged boy fled his home in Atherton, Missouri, to escape the power-hungry men who murdered his father and stole his family's land. He joined the Confederacy under an assumed name and led guerilla raids in the Civil War. Then came a decade as a Texas Ranger. Now, after ten blood-soaked years, he is finally coming home and finally using his real name and finally getting revenge against the cold-hearted devils who destroyed his family and...
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Series
I survived volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Dexter has always wanted to see a tornado. So when he gets the incredible opportunity to go storm chasing with the famous Dr. Norman Gage, he has to say yes! Dr. Gage is the host of Tornado Mysteries, the show that Dex and his older brother, Jeremy, watched every night until Jeremy joined the U.S. Navy SEALs and left Joplin. Dex certainly knows how deadly tornadoes can be, but this one isn't heading towards Joplin, and wouldn't it...
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English
Description
"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...
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Series
Berrybender narratives volume 3
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English
Description
Continues the saga of the Berrybender family--rich, aristocratic, and English--as they travel across the endless Great Plains of the West toward Santa Fe where they plan to spend the winter. Along the way they meet up with characters from the West including Kit Carson, the famous scout, and LePartezon, the fearsome Sioux war chief.
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Series
Orphan Train adventures volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
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.
20) River rising
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Series
Jazz age series (Dorothy Garlock) volume 4
Language
English
Description
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"...
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