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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
A year after moving to their farm in the Ozarks, Laura and Almanzo Wilder and their young daughter, Rose, have settled into their new home with a successful vegetable harvest and the beginnings of an apple orchard.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Lou wishes she could turn back time to mend her friendship with Francie after a terrible fight, so when Lou befriends Cece she is eager to prove herself, but as she uncovers the truth about Cece's family, she grapples with what being a good friend means.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
390L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1811, nine-year-old Marie is sad to learn that her family will be moving from New Madrid to St. Louis, Missouri, but when terrible earthquakes destroy her town, everything changes. Includes facts about those earthquakes and their effects.
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Series
Orphan Train adventures volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
In 1861, while living with his foster parents at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, twelve-year-old Mike Kelly and his best friend Todd Blakely join the Union army as drummer boys but their dreams of glory end when they experience the full horrors of war at the Battle of Wilson's Creek in Missouri.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1849, Zeb's parents ship him off to St. Louis to become an apprentice tanner, but the naive twelve-year-old rebels, casts his lot with a cheating riverboat gambler, while a slave and an Indian medicine man try to get Zeb back on the right path.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
"When their widowed mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent on the orphan train by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860"--WorldCat.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 500L
Language
English
Description
"In this enduring and internationally popular novel, Mark Twain combines social satire and dime-novel sensation with a rhapsody on boyhood and on America's pre-industrial past. Tom Sawyer is resilient, enterprising, and vainglorious. In a series of adventures along the banks of the Mississippi, he usually manages to come out on top. From petty triumphs over his friends and over his long-suffering Aunt Polly, to his intervention in a murder trial,...
Author
Series
Days of Laura Ingalls Wilder volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
In 1884, when Laura, Manly, and their daughter Rose come from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, looking for a better life, Laura's outspoken articles against a local timberman cause some problems.
Author
Series
Days of Laura Ingalls Wilder volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After devastating events in San Francisco, several Chinese families plan to make Mansfield their new home. Because part of the community views foreigners with contempt, the town is split over the arrival of the Chinese families. Laura hopes a moving Thanksgiving ceremony will bring the town together and allow the Chinese residents to see Mansfield as the land of promise they hoped it would be.
Author
Series
Days of Laura Ingalls Wilder volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
While life goes on in Mansfield, Missouri, Laura agrees to help her elderly father fulfill his dream of returning to their former home on the Kansas prairie.
In memory of Earl Hudson, given by Sandy Bennett.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
In small-town Missouri in tumultuous 1963, Tree Taylor, thirteen, wants to write an important story to secure a spot on the high school newspaper staff, but when a neighbor is shot, she investigates and learns that some secrets should be kept.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 980L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A beautiful hardcover repackaging of this timeless classic from the publishers of the Autobiography of Mark Twain and in partnership with the Mark Twain Project. This definitive edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was the only version of Mark Twain's masterpiece based on his complete manuscript, including the 663 pages found in a Los Angeles attic in 1990. Prepared by the Mark Twain Papers, the official archive of Sam Clemens's papers at the...
14) Tom Sawyer
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1981.
Language
English
Description
A simplified retelling of the classic story of the mischievous 19th-century boy in a Mississippi River town and his friends, Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher, as they run away from home, witness a murder, and find treasure in a cave.
Author
Series
Trixie Belden volume 15
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While on a trip to St. Louis, fourteen-year-old Trixie Belden discovers some mysterious papers in her hotel room and soon realizes that she and her friends are being followed as they cruise in a towboat down the Mississippi River.
16) Tom Sawyer
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
This is a retelling of the classic story of the mischievous 19th-century boy in a Mississippi River town and his friends, Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher, as they run away from home, witness a murder, and find treasure in a cave.
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