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61) My Ántonia
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
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Antonia Shimerda, the destitute child of Bohemian immigrants, and Jim Burden, a native Virginian who, after being orphaned at the age of ten, is sent to live with his grandparents in Nebraska. Jim goes to Harvard, becomes a traveling busnissman,a nd returns to Nebraska infrequently; Antonia elopes with a shiftless railroad conductor, comes home disgraced, and finds happiness with Anton Cuzak, a gentle farmer.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
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The shaky marriage between Henry McAllan and his city-bred wife Laura becomes even more unstable when his brother Jamie returns from World War II in 1946 to help work the family's miserable cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta, along with his comrade-in-arms Ronsel Jackson, the oldest son of local sharecroppers, who soon learns that his heroics in battle mean nothing in the Jim Crow south.
64) A hundred horses
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Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
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Eleven-year-old Nell must spend spring break in the country with an aunt and cousins she has never met, but while there she meets a mysterious, wild girl with a strange connection to horses and an uncanny understanding of Nell.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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"Laura and Almanzo have married and begun their new life together. They must face storms, sickness, and provide for their new baby, Rose. Their pioneer lives have trained them well, however, and they are determined to succeed"--P. [4] of cover.
66) Dust for dinner
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Jake narrates the story of his family's life in the Oklahoma dust bowl and the journey from their ravaged farm to California during the Great Depression.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
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Wildlife biologist Deanna is caught off guard by an intrusive young hunter, while bookish city wife Lusa finds herself facing a difficult identity choice, and elderly neighbors find attraction at the height of a long-standing feud.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Beam by beam and board by board, Bess the barn is built by able hands to keep the farm's animals safe and sound. Through many seasons and celebrations, that's just what she does, until she starts to sag...and creak...and slump. Then new everything comes along: a new farmer and a shiny new barn. A mean storm arrives not far behind, putting both barns to a dangerous test--can old Bess weather this threat to the farm? Bess opens her doors wide, welcoming...
Pub. Date
[n.d.]
Description
Billy Coleman returns from WWII to his grandfather's home in Louisiana and tries to readjust to civilian life. But the killing he witnessed in the war, along with the fact he has lost a leg to an enemy bullet, has embittered him. Grandpa had anticipated Billy's state of mind and has a therapeutic gift waiting for him: a pair of Redbone hound puppies - just like the ones he had as a boy, Wilson, who reminds him of himself. Wilson and the hounds become...
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
"With stories and photographs from Garrison Keillor, Roger Welsch, E.B. White, Grant Wood, Bob Artley, Charles Freitag, Bill Holm, Randy Leffingwell, Andrew Morland, Francis Lee Jaques, Sara Rath, Sara De Luca, Jim Heynen, Gordon Green, Patricia Penton Leimbach, Walter Haskell Hinton, and more."
74) Rose in a Storm
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"Rose is determined and focused, keeping the sheep out of danger and protecting the other creatures on the farm she calls home. But of all those she's looked after since coming to the farm as a puppy, it is Sam, the farmer, whom she watches most carefully. Awoken one cold midwinter night during lambing season, Rose and Sam struggle into the snowy dark to do their work. The ever observant Rose has seen a change in her master of late, ever since Sam's...
76) Forever hidden
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For Havyn Powell, growing up on her grandfather Chuck Bondrant's dairy outside the 1904 gold-rush boomtown of Nome, Alaska, offered all she needed. She had the love of her mother, two sisters, and grandfather. But now, at 23, Havyn realizes the stability of her life may soon vanish. Havyn is determined to find a way to keep the family together, but her grandfather's health is declining and everyone seems to be holding secrets from each other, including...
78) Bent Road
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Celia Scott and her family move back to her husband's hometown in Kansas, where his sister died under mysterious circumstances twenty years before, and where Celia and two of her children struggle to adjust--especially when a local girl disappears.
79) Escape goat
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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From the creators of Lambslide, comes a hilarious children's story about a scapegoat who escapes blame just in time. The Farmer family has a big problem! Every day their goat escapes, and every day, Mr. Farmer brings him back. So when things start to go awry on the farm, it must be the goat's fault. Who's to blame when Mrs. Farmer's petunias are trampled? Or when all the cupcakes for Archie's party disappear? And when the whole bucket of paint is...