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It's 1936 and the Great Depression has taken its toll. Eighty-six-year-old Hennie Comfort has lived in Middle Swan, Colorado, up in the high country of the snow-covered Rocky Mountains, since before it was Colorado. When she first meets seventeen-year-old Nit Spindle, Hennie is drawn to the young grieving girl. Nit and her husband have come to this small mining town in search of work, but the loneliness and loss Nit feels are almost too much to bear....
4) Ragweed
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
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Ragweed, a young country mouse, leaves his family and travels to the big city, where he finds excitement and danger and sees cats for the first time.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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"Thirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle is excited to return home from her school in England to her family in Rhode Island in the summer of 1832. But when the two families she was supposed to travel with mysteriously cancel their trips, Charlotte finds herself the lone passenger on a long sea voyage with a cruel captain and a mutinous crew. Worse yet, soon after stepping aboard the ship, she becomes enmeshed in a conflict between them! What begins as an...
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Weird volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
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Ten tales of death, invasions from other realms, bullies, babysitters, liars, and the brave kids who fight back. Zombie girls who have to hide, lest they get eaten by bigger zombies. Food that bites back. Wizards who are scared of their own power. Murdered (and murderous) pets. Secret superpowers. And that last, great voyage into the unknown. Stories to be whispered under the covers, by flashlight. Stories to be read by firelight to the robots who...
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2014.
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"Seventeen Tales of Monsters and the Macabre A collection of short horror, ghost, and dark fantasy stories for adults, woven together by a flock of crows, telling stories to entertain a girl trying to survive a tragedy... A storytelling crow named Machado strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young girl who tells herself stories. Without mate or chicks, he finds in her the daughter he never had. Then one day, evil erupts at the girl?s house. The...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
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The protagonist, Mary Emma Moody, widowed mother of six, has taken her family east in 1912 to begin a new life. Her son, Ralph, then thirteen, recalls how the Moodys survive that first bleak winter in a Massachusetts town. Money and prospects are lacking, but not so faith and resourcefulness. "Mother" in Little Britches and Man of the Family, Mary Emma emerges fully as a character in this book, and Ralph, no longer called "Little Britches," comes...
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Crispin volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
16) Mind sight
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Company Justice volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
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No idea is so good it can?t go bad. Frank Mallory is a private detective working for a new type of national detective agency: a well-organized one. Private Eyes, Inc., has the latest in data analysis, training techniques, cross-discipline integration, illicit back-door deals, and cynical programmers who don?t care what they have to do as long as they don?t lose their benefits while doing it. PEI has it all covered. The right mix of idealism and plausible...
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March 2021
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"Wild Times & True Tales is a collection of short stories and essays about the High Plains of Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska. Fast-paced and entertaining, Matt Vincent's first book takes the reader on a backroad tour of an overlooked and underappreciated part of the Great Plains where the buffalo once roamed- and where the deer and antelope still play. With a penchant for descriptive writing, the author puts us inside the bitter conflicts involving...
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