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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
940L
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"From the summer of my twelfth year I carry a series of images more vivid and lasting than any others of my boyhood and indelible beyond all attempts the years make to erase or fade them ..." So begins David Hayden' s story of what happened in Montana in 1948. The events of that cataclysmic summer permanently alter twelve-year-old David' s understanding of his family: his father, a small-town sheriff; his remarkably strong mother; David' s uncle Frank,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1160L
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English
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"Based on [the author']s own experiences as a young man, the book's two novellas and short story are set in the small towns and mountains of western Montana. It is a world populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, but also one rich in the pleasures of fly-fishing, logging, cribbage, and family. By turns raunchy and elegiac, these superb tales express, in [the author's] own words, 'a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes...
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An epic, heartrending tale that moves across decades and from early twentieth-century Montana to Europe, Cuba, Africa, and back again, the title novella is the powerful story of three brothers, from the madness of World War I that broke them apart, to the women they love and the ungovernable thirst for freedom that drives them.
4) Black river
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A former prison guard and talented fiddler returns to his Montana hometown to bury his wife and confront an inmate who, twenty years earlier, held him hostage during a prison riot.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Hired as a housekeeper to work on the early 1900s Montana homestead of widower Oliver Milliron, the irreverent Rose and her brother, Morris, endeavor to educate the widower's sons while witnessing local efforts on a massive irrigation project.
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It's 1963, and Calvin Sidey, one of the last of the old cowboys, has long ago left his family to live a life of self-reliance out on the prairie. He's been a mostly absentee father and grandfather until his estranged son asks him to stay with his grandchildren, Ann and Will, for a week while he and his wife are away. So Calvin agrees to return to the small town where he once was a mythic figure, to the very home he once abandoned. But trouble soon...
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Set in the vast and unforgiving prairie of eastern Montana from 1916 to 1946, In Open Spaces is the compelling story of the Arbuckle brothers:
GeorgeA rising baseball star who mysteriously drowns in the river
JackA World War I veteran who abandons his family only to return to reclaim the family ranch
BobThe youngest brother, whose marriage to Helen creates a fault line between him and the rest of his family
BlakeA
...8) A good man
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The final installment in his nationally best-selling trilogy, Guy Vanderhaeghe's A Good Man returns to the nineteenth-century Canadian and American West to explore the waning days of one of the world's last great frontiers. Wesley Case, a former soldier and the son of a Canadian lumber baron, sets out into the untamed borderlands between Canada and the United States to escape a dark secret from his past. He settles in Montana where he hopes to buy...
9) Sweet hearts
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With a lyrical beauty that reverberates off every page, Sweet Hearts tells the tale of a brother and sister that is as haunting as it is majestic Sixteen-year-old Flint Zimmer escapes juvenile detention, hitchhikes 612 miles across Montana, and arrives home, trailing "bad weather and bad luck," to be reunited with his half sister, ten-year-old Cecile, the only person he trusts and loves. Together they terrorize a local doctor and steal their mother's...
10) Winter range
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Sheriff Ike Parsons tries to help a local rancher who is down on his luck, but his good intentions are refused and the rancher is so insulted that he plots to kill Ike's wife.
11) Lookout
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"Set in rural Montana, Lookout centers on the dual coming-of-age of a girl and her father amid the natural and cultural forces that shape their family. Lookout tells the story of the Kinzlers, a working-class family firmly rooted in Northwest Montana. Set beneath big skies and spanning four decades, Lookout is an unvarnished look at contemporary life in the rural mountain west, and the interior worlds of people who are different than their surfaces...
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