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1) Finding home
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Hard-working but soft hearted, Casie Carmichael seems to be a magnet for strays and misfits. When a run-down ranch ends up in her possession, she hopes to sell it off. But before long, she finds a horse that needs rescuing, an exasperating old flame who turns her life upside down, and a trio of kids in dire need of help. Together, they will discover that Hope Springs, South Dakota is a place where the heart goes to heal.
2) Home fires
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Welcome to the Lazy Windmill, where guests find that life is what you make it, love is priceless, and family is determined by far more than DNA. Casie Carmichael's accidental dude ranch is well on its way, but the residents of her Hope Springs haven are running wild. With an unwed mother-to-be, a turbulent teen romance, and a bronc-riding grandmother to contend with, the last thing Casie has time for is a romantic relationship. But convincing recently...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
820L
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English
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Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp in the Dakota Territory and plan for their own homestead, but the influx of land-hungry people threaten their homestead claim.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
700L
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English
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Fourteen-year-old Brady and his cousin Quinn love extreme sports, but nothing could prepare them for the aftermath of Brady's close encounter with a meteorite after it crashes into his Black Hills, South Dakota, bedroom.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 6
Little house books volume 06
Little house books volume 6
LRS large print cornerstone
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Little house books volume 06
Little house books volume 6
LRS large print cornerstone
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
790L
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English
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"The town of De Smet is hit with terrible, howling blizzards and Laura and her family must ration their food and coal. When the supply train doesn't arrive, Almanzo Wilder and his brother realize something must be done. They begin an impossible journey in search of provisions, before it's too late"--P. [4] of cover.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 7
Little House books volume 07
Little house.Laura years volume 07
LRS cornerstone
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Little House books volume 07
Little house.Laura years volume 07
LRS cornerstone
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
850L
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English
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Pa's homestead thrives, Laura gets her first job in town, blackbirds eat the corn and oats crops, Mary goes to college, and Laura gets into trouble at school, but becomes a certified school teacher.
7) Hearth stone
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"With her chance at the US equestrian team shattered by an injury, Sydney Wellesley arrives at the Lazy Windmill ranch angry and heartbroken. But the rugged red bluffs and wild high plains of the Black Hills inspire her to purchase land where she can train her own Olympic hopefuls. Everything's going according to Sydney's new life plan--until her funding suddenly dries up. . . Alone in the ramshackle house she had planned to raze, Sydney is ready...
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Brigitte Nicholson is locked in a dulling mid-life limbo, but she still has the boyfriend and job that she's always wanted. Within two terrible days, that all changes. Searching for stability or at least distraction, she travels to the Salt Lake City Family History Center for some quieting genealogical research. What begins with mundane microfilm searches soon becomes a quest to understand one of her ancestors, a mysterious woman named Wichiwi. Curiosity...
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It is 1917 in the South Dakota Badlands and the summer has been hard. Rachel and Isaac DuPree had left Chicago fourteen years ago to stake their claim. Isaac, a former Buffalo Soldier, is fiercely proud: black families are rare in the West, and black ranchers even rarer. But it hasn't rained in months, the cattle are bellowing with thirst, and supplies have dwindled. Struggling to feed her family, Rachel is isolated by more than just geography. She...
10) Prairie school
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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The story of a country school on the South Dakota prairie and the children who attend it during the winter of 1949-1950.
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Carlisle McMillan, a traveler and master carpenter seeking a place of quiet amid the grinding roar of progress. Near Wolf Butte, a strange and apparently haunted monolith, he finds his quiet, or so he believes, and begins rebuilding a decrepit house as a tribute to the gruff old man who taught him a carpenter's skills, rebuilding his life at the same time. He finds two very different, independent women: Gally Deveraux, who works at a diner in Salamander...
13) A heart for home
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On the Red Bud Indian Reservation in South Dakota, Astrid Bjorklund is trying to stop the horrific epidemic that is ravaging the tribe, despite the elders' suspicions of her, but when the elders see some of their people beginning to recover, they allow Astrid to continue caring for the sick and to train others to help.
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A secret son. A lost love. A dangerous job. A frightening risk. A second chance at the happiness their hearts were once afraid to share. Thirteen years ago, alone and secretly pregnant, Helen Ketterling left her job as a school teacher on the Bad River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. Her summer love affair with Reese Blue Sky had ended abruptly when he left the reservation to pursue his chance at a NBA career. Now her new position, a dangerous...
15) Hearth song
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Home in the hills volume 2
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English
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"Bravura Lambert has a five-year-old daughter to raise, a tumbledown house to restore, a struggling business to run, and a husband who only shows up when he needs money. Tonk Redhawk has been helping her and when her husband does the unthinkable, Bravura will finally face the truth about her choices"--
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 9
Wilder Laura Ingalls volume 9
Wilder Laura Ingalls volume 09
LRS cornerstone
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Wilder Laura Ingalls volume 9
Wilder Laura Ingalls volume 09
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1030L
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English
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Fifteen-year-old Laura learns that living away from home and teaching school can be a bit frightening when most of the students are taller than she is, but every week Almanzo Wilder arrives to take her to her family for the weekend.
17) Finally home
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With the holidays reminding Casie of every mistake she's ever made, and her assistant Emily struggling to be a single mom, it's anyone's guess what the New Year will bring. Then bad boy Colt Dickenson shows up with a ring. No one has ever gotten under her skin like he has, but Casie can't believe a rough stock cowboy will stick around for the long haul. Still, the heart wants what it wants. Love is as stubborn as family, foals, and farm equipment....
18) Prairie winter
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
720L
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6th-grader Rachel Johnson lives on a remote prairie farm with no phone. So Cresband school to her means connection to the other students and the town. But a winter storm strands Rachel on the farm. She is surprised when her dad agrees to fly his three eldest daughters to town so they can continue the school year. But the 4 must board in a hotel with no parents, no rules and no chores. Wil Rachel ever be able to return to farm life after this?
19) Twisted tree
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The abduction and murder of teenager Hayley Jo Zimmerman by a serial killer has disturbing effects on the lives of other residents in the small South Dakota town of Twisted Tree, including supermarket clerk Elise, an ex-priest, her best friend Laura, and her father Stanley.
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Jane Albright is freshly widowed and pregnant---and has a toddler to care for. When she learns she might lose the family home and freighting business to moneylender Franklin Lloyd, she brandishes a bullwhip and continues her husband's work. But will Jane be able to protect her children's future from a money-grubbing cheat like Franklin?
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