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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 28
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Giants in the Earth (Norwegian: Verdens Grøde) is a novel by Norwegian-American author Ole Edvart Rølvaag. First published in Norwegian as two books in 1924 and 1925, the English edition was translated by the author and Lincoln Colcord, each of whom also wrote prefatory matter. Part of a trilogy, the novel follows a Norwegian pioneer family's struggles with the land and the elements of the Dakota Territory as they try to make a new life in America....
63) The homestead
Author
Series
Dakota (Linda Byler) volume 1
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Hannah and her family move from Lancaster, Pennsylvania to North Dakota, where they face harsh realities far from any Amish communities, forcing her to work on a cattle ranch, where she meets a charismatic English boy named Clay Jenkins.
64) The grass dancer
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Harley saw his father, Calvin Wind Soldier, and his brother, Duane, in dreams, they were wearing crowns of glass. Drops of blood trickled down their foreheads, beded on their black lashes, and slipped into the corners of their mouths. Four weeks before Harley was born, his father and his older brother were killed in a car accident. --- [Excerpt from inside cover.]
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Set against the backdrop of North Dakota's oil boom, two very different mothers form an uneasy alliance to find their missing sons in this heartrending and suspenseful novel from the Edgar Award-nominated author of Garden of Stones. The booming North Dakota oil business is spawning "man camps," shantytowns full of men hired to work on the rigs, in towns without enough housing to accommodate them. In such twilight spaces, it's easy for a person to...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Will life's circumstances threaten the hope of romance? Disarming Andi's feelings for the owner of a former missile site seems impossible. Exposing Amber's secret past makes her internship with Dr. Brandon less appealing. And in Praying for Rayne, corporate espionage jeopardizes Rayne's career---and chance for a relationship. Will love conquer all?
68) Mavis
Author
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Mavis Schmidt-Holmstead, the true mother-figure in a family of six girls, confesses to the murder of her abusive brother-in-law, drawing the group of aging sisters home, and causing them to re-examine their lives.
Author
Series
American chillers volume 19
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Now living in Bismarck, North Dakota, Damon Richards, with his friends Kamryn and Jason, find themselves in an unwanted but unavoidable fight against fire-breathing night dragons.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Rosemary Jackson has traveled all the way to the frozen tundra of North Dakota territory to visit her twin sister, Rachel. It's been three long years since Rachel left Kansas with her new husband for this wild place. But Rosemary arrives to find only a grave, a grieving brother-in-law, and an underfed baby. She has no choice but to stay and see her sister's family through the long winter. Finn Tate has just buried his beloved wife, and he cannot...
79) Jake's orphan
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
When taken from an orphanage to work on a farm in North Dakota in 1926, twelve-year-old Tree searches for a home not only for himself but also for his irrepressible younger brother.
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