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House of Winslow volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
870L
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English
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After stints in two prisons the Winslow's son Mark becomes a trouble shooter for the Union Pacific Railroad bringing law and order to towns along the line.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
970L
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English
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"A young Native American, Abel has come home to New Mexico from war to find himself caught between two worlds. The first is the world of his garndfather’s, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, and the ancient rites and traditions of his people. But the other world—modern, industrial America—pulls at Abel, demanding his loyalty and goading him into a destructive cycle of depravity and despair. A Pulitzer Prize-winning...
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Frontiersman series volume 1
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In Tennessee, 17-year-old Breckinridge Wallace knew the laws of nature. When his life was in danger, he showed a fearless instinct to fight back. Killing a thug who was sent to kill him got Breckinridge exiled from his Smoky Mountain home. Brutally wounding an Indian attacker earned him an enemy for life... Now, from the bustling streets of St. Louis to the vast stillness of the Missouri headwaters, Breckinridge is discovering a new world of splendor,...
4) Heartfire
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Tales of Alvin Maker volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
850L
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English
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Alvin has had a vision of building a Crystal City in which peace and freedom reign, but his wife Peggy has had a vision of death and destruction, so now they must decide which vision they should believe in.
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Frontiersman series volume 4
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English
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Following the trail of carnage left by bloodthirsty trapper Judd Carnahan, fearless pioneer Breckenridge Wallace, aka the Frontiersman, walks into a trap but nevertheless, fueled by righteous fury, he battles to destroy his enemy.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 31
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English
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"The basis for the epic Technicolor film starring Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert. Lana and Gil Martin marry in 1776, just as the rumblings of war begin to echo throughout the wilderness of the Mohawk Valley. Though aided by strengthening relationships with fellow settlers, establishing their new home on the frontier is constantly threatened by conflicts with British Loyalists and the Seneca Indians, who use violence to drive people off the land....
10) Charity girl
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Frieda Mintz, a seventeen-year-old Jewish girl in Boston, spends one impulsive night with a U.S. Army private and finds herself left with an unspeakable disease that causes the government to send her to a makeshift detention center where she is humiliated and violated by the officials, and inspired by the strong women surrounding her.
11) Remembrance Rock
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Taking as its starting point the exciting period just after VE Day, the story moves backward in time to early 17th century England, then to America with the Pilgrims. The reader follows the new country as it struggles and grows during the Revolution...during the Civil War...and the great movement, Westward...while an epilogue brings the story back to the present time.
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Frontiersman series volume 3
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English
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"Exiled from the Smoky Mountains for gunning down a man in self-defense, Breck Wallace tries to make a new home in St. Louis, even tries his hand at romance, but some men are too wild to settle down. Breck is soon back on the trail, where a vicious gang of trappers, after his goods, picks up his scent and begins to dog his every step, until Breck's only choice is to bed down for the winter with a tribe of friendly Indians. In the frigid, brutal cold...
13) The Titans
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Kent family chronicles (John Jakes) volume 5
American Bicentennial volume 05
The Kent chronicles volume 5
American bicentennial volume 5
American Bicentennial volume 05
The Kent chronicles volume 5
American bicentennial volume 5
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English
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The Kent family saga continues through the hell of the Civil War, from New York to Washington, as the heroes of the time touch the Kents and change them forever.
14) The furies
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Newly widowed, Amanda Kent, a brave young woman raised by the Teton Sioux, after witnessing the horrors of war at the Alamo, is indentured to a Mexican officer and longs to return home to Boston and restore her family's legacy.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
760L
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English
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Throughout the twentieth century, Miss Kanagawa, one of fifty-eight dolls made to serve as ambassadors from Japan to the United States, travels the country learning to love while changing the lives of those who need her.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 630L
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English
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Enamored of history, young Imogene Tripp tries to save her town's historical society from being demolished in order to build a shoelace factory. Includes notes about historical figures quoted in the story.
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In this singular collection, John Edgar Wideman, the acclaimed author of Writing to Save a Life, blends the personal, historical, and political to invent complex, charged stories about love, death, struggle, and what we owe each other. With characters ranging from everyday Americans to Jean-Michel Basquiat to Nat Turner, American Histories is a journey through time, experience, and the soul of our country. “JB & FD” reimagines conversations between...
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In 1914, with the world on the brink of war, Isaac, a nature-loving artist whose past is mysterious to all, including himself, meets Kemper, a defiant heiress caught in the rivalry between her brothers. Kemper's older brother Angel is hiding a terrible secret about his sexuality, and her younger brother Red possesses a capacity for violence that frightens even the members of his own brutal family. Together Isaac and Kemper build a refuge on their...
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"The paths of three young Black women in pre-Civil War Philadelphia unexpectedly-and dangerously-collide in this dramatic debut novel inspired by the explosive history of a city at war with itself. Philadelphia, 1837. When nineteen-year-old Charlotte escaped from the deteriorating White Oaks plantation four years ago, she'd expected freedom to look completely different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. Instead, she's locked away playing...
20) In this moment
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"Margaret Hollingsworth has been born with a gift which allows her to live three separate lives in 1861 Washington D.C., 1941 Pearl Harbor, and 2001 DC. She faces a difficult journey to discover her true self, while drawn to three worthy gentlemen, before she must choose one life to keep and the rest to lose"--
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