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Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors.
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Trace Riley finds the smoldering ruins of a small wagon train, he recognizes the hand behind the attack as the same group who left him as sole survivor years ago. Living off the wilderness since then, he'd finally carved out a home and started a herd--while serving as a self-appointed guardian of the trail. Deborah Harkness saved her younger sister and two toddlers during the attack. Trace offers the only shelter for miles around, and agrees...
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the adventures of the Ingalls family as they stake their claim to a rugged parcel of land on the Kansas prairie. Their exciting journey brings them face-to-face with mysterious Indians, wild animals and their peculiar new neighbors.
Author
Series
Golden Gate secrets volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
1905. Caleb Coulter, a lawyer, went missing three months ago. His sister, Camriann, heads to San Francisco to find him. She meets Judith and Kenzie, who also have mysteries to solve in the booming West Coast city. Camri's search leads her deep into the political corruption of the city-- and into the acquaintance of Patrick Murdock, an Irishman who Caleb saved from a false murder charge. Together they see the truth, will Patrick be able to protect...
Author
Series
Wild at Heart volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the late 1860s, homesteader Shannon Wilde tumbles over a cliff with mountain man Matthew Tucker, and their adventures begin. Can they survive as they learn to love and protect each other--for better or worse?"--
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A young woman torn between duty and her own happiness defies her father to become the wife of a man with few prospects. Based on a true story. Mollie Sheehan has spent much of her life striving to be a dutiful daughter and honor her father's wishes, even when doing so has led to one heartbreak after another. After all, what options does she truly have in 1860s Montana? But providing for her stepfamily during her father's long absences doesn't keep...
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A collection of frontier stories.
No man's man -- The nester and the Piute -- Desert death song -- Heritage of hate -- Hattan's castle -- Big man -- Showdown on the Tumbling T -- Waltz him around again, shadow -- Rowdy rides to glory -- The ghost maker -- Down the Pogonip Trail -- The romance of Piute Bill -- That triggernometry tenderfoot -- The sixth shotgun -- Barney takes a hand -- Rain on the halfmoon-- When a Texan takes over -- Big medicine...
12) Old Yeller
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country ranks high in the annals of boy and dogdom. Gipson, in earlier books, has evinced an evocative quality which recaptures for the reader the sounds, the smells, the sights of the region he knows and loves, recaptures too the emotional quality, the moods of his central figure. This was particularly true in Hound-Dog Man, which for some readers was marred by the vernacular. In Old Yeller the story...
Author
Series
Steve Dancy tales volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Publishing
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When New York City shopkeeper Steve Dancy moved west to experience the frontier, he wound up embroiled in a deadly feud -- a feud he was forced to settle with guns. Now all he wants to do is follow up on a few business interests, write about his adventures, and continue his exploration of the West. But in the autumn of 1879, Joseph McAllen asks Dancy for help. Ute renegades have abducted a young girl near Mesa Verde, Colorado, and the Pinkerton captain...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Publishing
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
It might be said that both Jim Currys were the victims of fate. Jim Curry the elder had an unsavory reputation, but he only got into bad trouble when, demonstrating a slick piece of gun play to Dad Jackson, he accidentally killed him. Wanting to do the right thing, Jim Curry the elder rode into town to explain what happened to Sheriff Mason, and though the sheriff accepted his explanation, he insisted Jim be locked up to await trial. Then the real...
17) The long winter
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather.
18) Fire and ice
Author
Series
Wild at Heart volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the late 1860s West, two independent ranch homesteaders go head-to-head over prized land, until Gage Coulter proposes an unexpected plan to Bailey Wilde and, in a moment of weakness, she agrees"--
19) Hired guns
Author
Publisher
Center Point Publishing
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Billy Buel didn't look like a man who could inspire fear. He was a slight man with boyish good looks and a gentle manner, but he was also a fearsome fighter with hands or guns or knives. Billy Buel was one of those rare men who had learned from every defeat he'd ever been handed. For nine years a feud had raged between the Benchleys and the Camps. At last, they decided on a two-man duel to settle their grudge. Now Billy Buel, hired by the Camps, faced...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
While traveling in 1883 with her Italian American family (including a meddlesome little sister) and other immigrant pioneers to a utopian community in Idaho, fourteen-year-old Teresa keeps a diary of her experiences along the way.
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