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Canadian West series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Having survived the harshness of their first year in the far Northwest, Elizabeth and Wynn, her Royal Canadian Mountie, are now challenged by a crushing disappointment. Will their love for each other, hope for the future, and their faith in God carry them through?"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth, the cultured young schoolteacher from the East, has braved the western frontier and spent a year teaching in a one-room schoolhouse. How she and Wynn are planning their wedding and their new life together at his outpost in the far north. While Wynn is accustomed to life in the north, Elizabeth is not. Can their love for each other sustain them through a harsh winter, loneliness, and rigors of life without any of the conveniences they're...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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With What's So Great About America, Dinesh D'Souza is not asking a question, but making a statement. The former White House policy analyst and author argues that in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, American ideals and patriotism should not be things we shy away from. Instead he offers the grounds for a solid, well-considered pride in the Western pillars of "science, democracy and capitalism," while deconstructing arguments from both the political...
5) Band of brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne : from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Easy Company, 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army, kept getting the tough assignments. They were responsible for everything from parachuting into France early D-Day morning to the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. Ambrose tells of the men of this brave unit who fought, went hungry, froze, and died, in a company that took 150 percent casualties and consider the Purple Heart a badge of office. -- adapted from back cover.
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Hinges of history volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Series
Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In this final volume of The Border Trilogy, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together, in the still point between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing or already changed beyond recognition.
In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham—nine years apart in age, yet with a kinship greater than perhaps they know—are cowboys on a...
In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham—nine years apart in age, yet with a kinship greater than perhaps they know—are cowboys on a...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first volume in the Border Trilogy, from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road
All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With...
All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With...
13) The wrecker
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Isaac Bell thrillers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Detective Isaac Bell travels the early-twentieth-century American railways, driven by a sense of justice and a determination to stop a new mastermind reigning terror on a crucial express line in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
A year of financial panic and labor unrest, 1907 sees train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad’s Cascades express line. Desperate for help the railroad...
A year of financial panic and labor unrest, 1907 sees train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad’s Cascades express line. Desperate for help the railroad...
15) The crossing
Author
Series
Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
In The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a classic western and the elegaic power of a lost American myth. In the late 1930s, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a she-wolf that has been marauding his family's ranch. But instead of killing it, he decides to take it back to the mountains of Mexico....
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A collection of four novellas in different genres, including a western about a farmer who grows living toys and a rancher who grows half-living people; a science fiction story of the near-future in which the world is as easy to manipulate as the Internet; a crime story in which every wish comes true and only the Imaginary Crimes Unit can stop them; and a comedic love story in which Death describes himself as a charismatic hero.
17) The journey home
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Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Two orphan sisters in the late 1800s leave New York on the orphan train to seek a new home in the West.
18) Ghost medicine
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Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Still mourning the recent death of his mother, seventeen-year-old Troy Stotts relates the events of the previous year when he and his two closest friends try to retaliate against the sheriff's son, who has been bullying them for years.
19) Radigan
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Radigan must defend his land from beautiful Angelina Foley, her hired gunfighters, and the old Spanish grant to his land that she somehow acquired.
20) Conagher
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Conagher deals with outlaws and Indians as he helps a young widow and her children survive life on the western frontier.