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Calder saga volume 3
Language
English
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Chase Benteen Calder, haunted by his mother's desertion and the death of his father, and pursued by unprincipled cattlerancher Judd Boston, stakes a claim in Montana and sets out with his young bride Lorna to make a new life.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
440L
Language
English
Description
The Alden children head to their aunt's ranch for the summer and make an amazing discovery! Adapted from Gertrude Chandler Warner's story of the same name, this early reader allows children to start reading with a Boxcar Children classic.
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Calder saga volume 1
Language
English
Description
The first volume about the Calder family. In this story Benteen Calder leaves Texas with a herd of cattle and his new bride, Lorna. Lorna had to adjust to the demanding work but happily Benteen discovered she was a passionate wife. Happiness came in raising two sons and building a new home, but then the past returned to haunt them, raising hidden jealousies and theatening their life together.
4) Dear pen pal
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Mother-Daughter Book Club volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Four very different friends in Concord, Massachusetts, and their mothers continue their book club, reading Jean Webster's "Daddy Long-Legs," while getting to know their own pen pals from Wyoming.
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English
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Meet Josefina Montoya, a nine-year-old girl growing up in New Mexico in 1824. Josefina and her sisters have been struggling ever since Mamá died a year ago. When Mamá's sister, Tía Dolores, comes to live on their rancho, the girls are overjoyed. But Tía Dolores has lots of new ideas! She starts a family weaving business. And she teaches the girls to read, something Mamá never learned to do. Josefina worries that all of Tía Dolores's changes...
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Lexile measure
AD 580L
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English
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A young girl is skeptical when her parents declare they will have a simple Christmas focused on giving rather than getting, but soon their old barn is filled with food, fun, friends, and homemade gifts. Includes directions for making star ornaments, Christmas card coasters, and melted crayon rocks.
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Series
Calder saga volume 2
Language
English
Description
Webb Calder fought the newcomers who rushed to claim grasslands where Calder cattle grazed. But he could not resist Lilli -- a proud and lovely young immigrant, loyal to the homesteader's cause, and to her husband. Still, a Calder kept what he had and got what he wanted. Where a man stands for what he believes, there Stands a Calder Man.
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Series
Calder saga volume 4
Language
English
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Volume four of the Calder saga. Ty was born a Calder, but bred a stranger to the mighty empire that was his legacy. He learned the ways of ranch life from young Jessy who knew the land like her own heart. But Ty worshipped Tara. Tara lured Ty on to be mistress of the Calder kingdom. Yet, when her world rushed in to plunder the fortune that lay beneath the prairie, it was Jessy who stood by his side, defying death to save his birthright.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
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Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of Avonlea comes under Anne's influence in some way. We see her grow from a...
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