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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Barnabus Pike is no gunfighter and not much of a street fighter. Eddie Holt is a black boxer in a white man's world. They've both taken their share of hard knocks. Now they're looking to survive a brutal winter in a remote Montana line shack, collect their pay, and settle down for good. Then they cross paths with a hardworking Irish immigrant and his beautiful, spirited sister, who've been burned off their land. It's a fight Pike and Holt don't want,...
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English
Description
James Goodenough, whose family had originally settled in Connecticut from England brings his family to Ohio to carve out a new life for them in the Black Swamp in 1838. As swamp fever gradually picks off their children and they wrestle daily with survival. This course will see their family engulfed in tragedy and fifteen years later we pick up with their youngest son, Robert who has been running west since the trying to escape his memories of what...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
By the time he was twenty, Rye Tyler had killed ten men. He had come west in a wagon train, seen the Indians kill his family and been left on his own in a harsh and wild country. From that brutal lesson Rye learned the harsh law of survival: the only friends he could trust were his rifle and his .44. His skill not only kept him alive, it made him a man to be feared. Then Rye met Liza, and there was a bright new light in his life -- a light a ruthless...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
"Laura and her family are headed to the Dakota Territory for a chance to own their own land -- and stop moving. The new town of De Smet is filling up with settlers lured west by the promise of free land, and the Ingalls family must do whatever it takes to defend their claim"--Page 4 of cover.
8) Shane
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1889, a mysterious and charismatic man rides into a small Wyoming valley, where he joins homesteaders who take a stand against a bullying cattle rancher, and where he changes the lives of a young boy and his parents.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
"The long winter is finally over, and with spring comes a new job for Laura, town parties, and more time to spend with Almanzo Wilder. Laura also tries to help Ma and Pa save money for Mary to go to college"--P. [4] of cover.
10) A lost lady
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English
Description
"Written from the perspective of a male narrator, Willa Cather's classic novel is an American version of "Madame Bovary". It is a portrait of a talented woman trapped in the conventions and economic restraints of a marriage. It is the story of a woman who defies expectations, and whose personal changes coincide with the transforming American Frontier. In this work, Willa Cather expressed her profoundly modern feminist views in the life of an ordinary...
11) The long winter
Author
Series
Little house books volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
"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.
12) Bendigo Shafter
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Bendigo Shafter and his followers build a town in the heart of Wyoming Indian country, where the crack-shot leader falls in love with two women, the dignified Widow Macken and the beautiful Ninon.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
As the daughter of a successful Montreal physician, Cassandra Dell Winston is used to city life, so when she falls in love with a conscientious young doctor who intends to practice in his hometown on the frontier, she can only hope that life out West will prove to be temporary.
Author
Series
Little house volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
"Laura and her family find a new home in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, where the nearby creek and swimming hole lure Laura with dangerous, yet thrilling adventures. Too soon, their life is threatened when prairie fires and other strange events jeopardize their crops."
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
A sweeping adventure of the California frontier. Here is the story of Johannes Verne, a young man left to die by his vengeful grandfather, rescued by outlaws and raised in part by the Indians of the desert. Strengthened by the love of two womenḾiss Nesselrode, whose mysterious past fires her ambitions for the future and Meghan, a willful young beautyV́erne grows to become a rugged adventurer, a man strong enough to embrace the awesome power of...
17) Caddie Woodlawn
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century. At age 11, Caddie Woodlawn is the despair of her mother and the pride of her father: a clock-fixing tomboy running wild in the woods of Wisconsin. In 1864, this is a bit much for her Boston-bred mother to bear, but Caddie and her brothers are happy with the status quo. Written in 1935 about Carol Ryrie Brink's grandmother's childhood, the...
18) Winter fire
Author
Series
Maxwells volume 2
Language
English
Description
For two years Sarah Kennedy, a mail-order bride experiences painful sex at the hands of her husband, a brutal farmer. The experience leaves her hating sex, even after he dies. But one day there stumbles into her farmhouse lawman Case Maxwell and as she heals his wounds desire revives.
Orphaned at thirteen, a mail-order bride at fourteen, widowed at sixteen, Sarah Kennedy has learned to depend upon no one but herself--reserving all her love for her...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
Traveling by covered wagon, Marty and her husband come to the frontier prairie with bright dreams of a new homestead. But her husband is killed in an accident, and Marty, pregnant and alone, now has nowhere to go. When widower Clark Davis offers her a home in exchange for caring for his little girl, Marty knows she must accept. But acceptance means she must marry Clark, and become a real mother for little Missy.