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Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"Nina is used to feeling like the odd one out, both at school and in her large family. But while trying to fit in at summer camp, she discovers something even more peculiar: two majestic birds have built a nest in the marsh behind an abandoned infirmary. They appear to be whooping cranes, but that's impossible--Nina is an amateur bird-watcher, and all her resources tell her that those rare birds haven't nested in Texas for over a hundred years ......
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of successful shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who is trying to force her to retire, and along the way Jenna hones her talents as a saleswoman and finds the strength to face her alcoholic father.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
After moving from Chicago to Dallas in the spring of her sophomore year, fifteen-year-old Ella finds that joining the softball team at her private school not only helps her make friends, it also provides unexpected opportunities to learn and grow.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
"Yusuf is excited to start middle school in his small Texas town, but with the twentieth anniversary of the September 11 attacks coming up, suddenly it feels like the country's same anger and grief is all focused on his Muslim community"--
87) Buffalo music
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After hunters kill off the buffalo around her Texas ranch, a woman begins raising orphan buffalo calves and eventually ships four members of her small herd to Yellowstone National Park, where they form the beginnings of newly thriving buffalo herds. Based on the true story of Mary Ann Goodnight and her husband Charles.
88) Double trouble
Author
Series
Twintuition volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"In Double Trouble, identical twins Cassie and Caitlyn Waters have adjusted to small-town life in Aura, Texas, but they're still not used to seeing visions of the future. And their Sight is only getting stronger as their twelfth birthday nears! But even with this new gift, neither girl could have predicted what the mysterious package they received would contain--a connection to the father they know nothing about and the grandmother they never knew...
89) Crosswire
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
When an 1883 drought drives free-range cattlemen to shred Texas ranchers' barbed wire fences and steal water, thirteen-year-old Jesse works hard to help while dealing with his father and brother's falling-out and his own fear of guns.
90) Devils unto dust
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
To protect her family, a young woman must brave the desert and a terrifying infected population in this gripping adventure that blends 'True Grit' with '28 Days Later.'
"Keep together. Keep your eyes open. Keep your wits about you. The desert is unkind in the best of times. And the decade since the Civil War has been anything but the best of times for Daisy Wilcox-- call her Willie-- and her family. This tense, heart-pounding alternate history...
92) Hope Springs
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Eleven-year-old crafter Jubilee Johnson's assumptions about her vagabond life, her estranged mother, and her idol, television's perfect crafter Arletta Paisley, start to change after Jubi and her grandmother move to a small Texas town.
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 62
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
Hank's on the case after coyotes kidnap Drover, thinking he'd make a tasty meal.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Twelve-year-old Selah aspires to be an equestrian superstar. That would require a horse but her Grandpa wants nothing to do with horses. Then Selah sees buzzards circling the grasslands behind Grandpa's farm. They are stalking a horse trapped in wire and Selah is its only hope.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"It's the start of a new school year, and Kylie Jean wants to play the Queen of Hearts in her second grade class's production of Alice in Wonderland. She works on her lines with her family's bull dog, Ugly Brother (whose real name is Bruno), until she memorizes every last one for the tryouts. Unfortunately, the new girl at school, Paula, sets her sights on the same role."--Amazon.com.
96) Gullible Gus
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Tired of the teasing he gets for being the most gullible man in Texas, Cowboy Gus goes to Fibrock to find the biggest liar there in hopes of hearing a tall tale that is impossible for anyone--even him--to believe.
98) Texas treasure
Author
Series
Magic on the map volume 3
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Parker twins Finn and Molly help new friend Carlos follow a treasure map left to him by his grandfather"--