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Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Helen wants to contribute to the war effort after the United States goes to war in 1917--so she joins the Women's Land Army of America, an organization that trains women to do farm work, replacing the workers drafted into the army.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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"Growing up on his family's farm in New York, Almanzo Wilder wishes for just one thing -- his very own horse. But Father doesn't yet trust him with such a big responsibility. Almanzo needs to prove himself -- but how?"--P. [4] of cover.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
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As soon as Anne Shirley arrived at the snug, white farmhouse called Green Gables, she knew she wanted to stay forever. But would the Cuthberts send her back to the orphanage? Anne knows she's not what they expected -- a skinny girl with decidedly red hair and a temper to match. If only she could convince them to let her stay, she'd try very hard not to keep rushing headlong into scrapes or blurt out the very first thing she had to say. Anne was...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
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Written in sparse first-person, free-verse poems, is the compelling tale of Billie Jo's struggle to survive during the dust bowl years of the Depression. With stoic courage, she learns to cope with the loss of her mother and her grieving father's slow deterioration. There is hope at the end when Billie Jo's badly burned hands are healed, and she is able to play her beloved piano again.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
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"Laura and her family find a new home in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, where the nearby creek and swimming hole lure Laura with dangerous, yet thrilling adventures. Too soon, their life is threatened when prairie fires and other strange events jeopardize their crops."
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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This beloved story of a pioneer girl and her family begins in 1871 in a log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Laura lives in the little house with her pa, her ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their dog, Jack. Pioneer life is sometimes hard for the family, but it is also exciting as they make their own homemade toys and treats, do the spring planting, bring in the harvest, and visit town. And every night Laura and her family are...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
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Orwell's 1945 fable about the power struggles among animals on a farm parallels the situation in Russia at the time as Orwell saw it; the characters include the ruthless pig Stalin, his idealistic Trotsky-like adversary, and the simple, kindly horse who represents the common man. All animals are equals but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is the account of the bold struggle, initiated...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
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"Stephen Crane's immortal masterpiece about the nightmare of war was first published in 1895 and brought its young author immediate international fame. Set during the Civil War, it tells of the brutal disillusionment of a young recruit who had dreamed of the thrill and glory of war, only to find himself fleeing the horror of a battlefield. Shame over his cowardice drives him to seek to redeem himself by being wounded -- earning what he calls the "red...
10) Cowboy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Text and photographs trace the history and lore of cowboys around the globe
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
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Living with seven brothers and her father, who thinks girls are useless, a thirteen-year-old Finnish American farm girl is determined to prove her worth when a enterprising gentleman tries to purchase their cash-strapped family settlement in Washington State in 1900.
12) Vengeance road
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Series
Vengeance road volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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"When her father is killed by the notorious Rose Riders for a mysterious journal that reveals the secret location of a gold mine, eighteen-year-old Kate Thompson disguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers--and justice"--
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Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Description
With the recent death of her mother and the possibility of her family losing their farm, Samantha Sakamoto does not have space in her life for dreams, but when faced with prejudice and violence in her Washington State community after Pearl Harbor, she is determined to use her photography to document the bigotry around her.
15) A northern light
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
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In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.
16) Vikings
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book introduces Vikings, who were warriors that left their homes in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark to attack towns and villages all over Europe, from 800 to 1100 A.D.
17) Colonial women
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Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book introduces the different skills and often difficult lives of women on the farm, in business, and on the plantation as the owner's wife or as a slave in colonial America.
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Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
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In 1934, eleven-year-old Terpsichore's father signs up for President Roosevelt's Palmer Colony project, uprooting the family from Wisconsin to become pioneers in Alaska, where Terpsichore refuses to let rough conditions and first impressions get in the way of her grand adventure.
19) The beloved wild
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Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In 1807, Harriet Winter leaves her family's New Hampshire farm with her brother to settle in the Genesee Valley to avoid being pushed into marriage with her neighbor, Daniel Long.
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
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Caroline knows that in order to fight the British, her village desperately needs its shipyards and supply boats and she will do whatever it takes to keep them out of enemy hands, then later, while helping on her uncle's farm, Caroline discovers that the war brings dangers there, too.