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41) Trouble River
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
When he builds his raft, a twelve-year-old boy never dreams that it will serve as the sole means of escape for himself and his grandmother when hostile Indians threaten their prairie cabin.
42) The daybreakers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Orrin and Tyrel Sackett are forced to leave their home in the Tennessee mountains when Tyrel shoots Long Higgins, after he accidentally shoots Orrin's bride-to-be. Higgins is the last of a family with which the Sacketts have been feuding. To keep from getting into a situation with the local sheriff, a distant cousin of the Sacketts, the two strike out for the western lands. With Cap Roundtree and Tom Sunday, the brothers settle in the town of Mora,...
Author
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Battle-hardened Tom Kedrick is hired by Alton Burwick to drive a pack of renegades and outlaws from his land, but soon Kendrick suspects that he is fighting for the wrong man and that he is the only one who can stop a massacre of innocent men and women.
44) Wagon wheels
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1984.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Description
Insights into the lives of black pioneers in Kansas in the 1870s are shared in a story about three brothers who endure through a hard winter and brave wilderness dangers as they journey to meet their father.
Author
Series
Brides of Gallatin County volume 1
Language
English
Description
After years spent following their father and his wanderlust, the three Gallatin sisters begin to fashion a life for themselves in the Montana wilds, operating a roadhouse at the crossroads of two stage lines. When their father is accidently killed, however, the oldest sister, Gwen, reasons that she's cursed. Death seems to haunt her every step. As the sisters work to maintain the roadhouse, an unexpected visitor arrives, sending Gwen into turmoil....
Author
Series
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Chantry came home to a murdered brother and a couple of squatters. Then the Mowatt gang moved in. They were looking for his brother's buried treasure. Chantry was going to lead them to it. Or else.
Owen Chantry arrives at his brother Clive's ranch to find him murdered and two squatters occupying his cabin. The unlikely trio -- and a beautiful stranger -- soon find themselves in a deadly feud with Clive's killers, the Mowatt gang, who return in search...
47) Swamp Angel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 960L
Language
English
Description
Along with other amazing feats, Angelica Longrider, also known as Swamp Angel, wrestles a huge bear, known as Thundering Tarnation, to save the winter supplies of the settlers in Tennessee.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Accidentally overhearing a plot to kidnap the niece of a prominent rancher as she arrives from the East, Milt Dale springs into action. He comes out of his splendid isolation to protect Helen and her kid sister, Bo. Leading them away from manmade danger, exposing them to unaccustomed rigor on mountain trails, Dale imparts his rugged philosophy. Beyond the forest, Beasley and Snake Anson are still waiting to carry out their evil plot"--Amazon.
49) Redeeming love
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
California's gold country, 1850. Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. Then she meets Michael Hosea, a man who seeks his Father's heart in everything. He obeys God;s call to marry Angel and to love her unconditionally. Defying Angel's every bitter expectations, despite her resistance her frozen heart begins to thaw. But overcome by feelings of unworthiness and fear,...
50) The Arizona clan
Author
Language
English
Description
Dodge Mercer looks for thieves taking his sorghum at night and becomes interested in opposing clan's lovely daughter during the day.
51) Tucket's gold
Author
Series
Tucket's Gold volume BOOK 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Francis and the two children he has adopted travel across the Old West, evade Comancheros, discover a treasure, and wind up rich beyond their wildest dreams.
Author
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Lance Kilkenny has a debt to pay, and he isn't about to let the friend who saved his life go down in a range war. But when Kilkenny tries to stop the fighting, he finds there's more at stake than land or wire. Whoever is stirring up trouble has big ideas for the Live Oak country--and an army of hired guns to back them up. Nita Riordan, the beautiful and fiery owner of the Apple Canyon Saloon, warns Lance that the mysterious man orchestrating the conflict...
56) O pioneers!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
O Pioneers! (1913) is the story of Alexandra Bergson, a fiercely independent and clear-headed young woman whose passionate faith in the Nebraska prairie makes her a wealthy landowner." "Willa Cather's second novel is imbued with the democratic utopianism of Walt Whitman and the serene regionalism of Sarah Orne Jewett, but it is not merely an elegy for the lost glories of America's pioneer past. In its rage for order and efficiency, O pioneers! also...
58) Caleb's story
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
Sequel to: Skylark.
The stranger lurking on the Witting family's prairie farm turns out to be their long-lost grandfather, whose presence plus prodding from Sarah forces Jacob to deal with his past.