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1382) Prairie Evers
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"Ten-year-old Prairie is happy being home-schooled and raising her flock of chickens, so transferring to regular school is a big change, but fortunately she meets a wonderful friend"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Little Britches becomes the "man" in his family after his father's early death, taking on the concomitant responsibilities as well as opportunities. During the summer of his twelfth year he works on a cattle ranch in the shadow of Pike's Peak, earning a dollar a day. Little Britches is tested against seasoned cowboys on the range and in the corral. He drives cattle through a dust storm, eats his weight in flapjacks, and falls in love with a blue outlaw...
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Young "Little Britches" life is radically changed when his ailing father dies. Then his mother reveals a terrible secret and the family is forced to flee their Colorado ranch to an uncertain future. Fortified with the Yankee ingenuity his father taught him, at age eleven Ralph takes on his new role an Man of the Family. His mother deplores her inability to give her children everything materially, and instead gives them much to build their lives and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
In True Colors, the Grey sisters of Water's Edge, a small Washington town, have just buried their mother. Their father Henry, devastated by this, decides to bury his pain in the bottom of a liquor bottle. Moving forward thirteen years, the author delves into the lives and hearts of these young women, their families, and the strong bonds of sisterhood that is tested by jealousy, passion, and betrayal.
In Summer Island, thirty-four year old Ruby Bridge...
1387) The cookie moon
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume A5
Pub. Date
p2008
Description
"Drover admits he thinks the moon looks like a cookie! After a scientific discussion, Hank agrees. Then, when Loper sets down Sally May's picnic basket, which contains oatmeal raisin cookies, the plot thickens. Hank suddenly realizes the cookie moon was a sign that he should... you'll never guess what!"--Container.
1388) Paint the wind
Author
Pub. Date
[released 2009], c2009
Description
After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode.
1393) The runaway windmill
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 4
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
"When an enemy spy (in a chicken suit!) sneaks on the ranch, it's going to be a wild day for Hank. Will Hank be able to protect the ranch and some newfound valuables of his? But Hank's biggest challenge will be whether he (and Drover) can lead a rescue to save Slim from his ride on a runaway windmill"--Container insert.
1394) Heroes of the Old West
Pub. Date
[c2011]
Description
Blue steel: It's up to John Carruthers to save the little town of Yucca City from the evil extremes of the 'Polka Dot Bandit," and win the heart of the beautiful Betty Mason.
Santa Fe Trail: Jeb Stuart, the famed Southern calvaryman arrives at West Point, where he befriends George Armstrong Custer. Both compete for the attention of "Kit Carson" Halliday. As a punishment for fighting with fellow classmates, both men are sent to an outpost in Kansas...
Author
Series
Border trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
1993.
Description
John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick--a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins--encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance.
1399) Centaur rising
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In 1965, a year after Arianne thinks she sees a shooting star land in the fields surrounding her family's horse farm, a baby centaur is born and the family, already under scrutiny because Arianne's six-year-old brother has birth defects, struggles to keep the colt a secret.
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