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2) Old Yeller
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the late 1860's in the Texas hill country, a big yellow dog and a fourteen year-old boy form a close, loving relationship.
3) Swamp Angel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Along with other amazing feats, Angelica Longrider, also known as Swamp Angel, wrestles a huge bear, known as Thundering Tarnation, to save the winter supplies of the settlers in Tennessee.
Author
Series
Heart of the frontier volume 3
Language
English
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Description
The Inspiring Conclusion to Tracie Peterson's Heart of the Frontier Series Mercy Flanagan survived the Whitman Massacre as a child, and now her heart's cry is for peace between the native peoples and the white settlers inhabiting Oregon Territory. Unfortunately, most of the settlers would rather the tribes were removed from the land completely, one way or the other, and tensions are rising. Mercy has grown tired of Oregon City and feels that she has...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
While traveling in 1883 with her Italian American family (including a meddlesome little sister) and other immigrant pioneers to a utopian community in Idaho, fourteen-year-old Teresa keeps a diary of her experiences along the way.
10) The sea of grass
Author
Language
English
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Description
Lutie Brewton, a cultivated lady from the city, leaves her husband, children, and life on a huge cattle ranch to return to the city. Twenty years later after her youngest son is killed, she returns to the man who loves her in spite of everything.
11) Reilly's luck
Author
Language
English
Description
Reilly, a gentlemen and a gambler, takes on a frightened four-year-old boy abandoned to die on a cold, snowy night.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Remembering her mother's words, an eight-year-old girl finds courage to go alone with her father to build a new home in the Connecticut wilderness and to stay with the Indians when her father goes back to bring the rest of the family.
13) Wagons west!
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A rhyming story of a family's move by wagon train between Missouri and Oregon in the 1850's and their daughter's role in outwitting cattle thieves.
15) The long winter
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather.
17) Fallon
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A gambler of the Old West turns his back on saloons and dance halls when he falls in love.
18) Winchester 1887
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
On the American frontier, every gun tells a story. A boy in Texas waits for a Christmas present he chose from a Montgomery Ward catalog. The present, a brand new, lever action Winchester 1886 and a box of its big .50-caliber slugs, never makes it there. Instead, the rifle is caught up in a train robbery and starts a long and violent journey of its own--from the hands of a notorious, kill-crazy outlaw to an Apache renegade to a hardscrabble rancher...
19) Sackett
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
The adventures of the members of the Sackett family in the frontier West.
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