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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Orphaned at age six and taken in by a heartless couple, nine-year-old Katie Rose spends her days doing chores and dreaming of going west to find her Uncle Jack. Then Mr. Stevens brings home an unbroken Mustang, and Katie's world changes. Katie is drawn to the horse's wildness, and he seems to sense her need for companionship. So when Katie learns that the Stevenses plan to join the expansion West, without her or the Mustang, she makes a desperate...
Author
Series
American diaries volume 19
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Different girls, living in different periods of America's past, reveal their hearts' secrets in the pages of their diaries. Grandmamma has died and Zellie has no other family. She desperately needs her job with mean-spirited Mrs. Gird, who runs a boardinghouse for the girls who work at the textile mills. When Mrs. Gird tells Zellie to eavesdrop and report what she hears, Zellie is surprised and does not know what to do.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
In the Colorado Territory in 1875, orphan Margret and her older sister Libby are staying with the kind-hearted Mrs. Fredrickson when Margret finds an injured horse which she nurses back to health and wants to keep, while Libby is too mistrustful of people to think that they might possibly have found a home.
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