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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...
Author
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
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1c 2005 Gift $22.95
Ralph Compton stood six-foot-eight without his boots. He worked as a musician, a radio announcer, a songwriter, and a newspaper columnist. His first novel, The Goodnight Trail, was a finalist for the Western Writers of America's Medicine Pipe Bearer Award for best debut novel. He is also the author of the Sundown Rider series and the Border Empire series.
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Black Cat Bookstore volume 2
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Cobweb the cat and her best friends, who are mice, save the spooky Black Cat Bookstore from a burglar who says he doesn't believe in ghosts.
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year oldAda's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are...
5) Ghost train
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Series
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When Billy finds a burlap sack containing a pistol and a cryptic, threatening note, he and his best friends Dannie and Finn avoid rehearsals for the town's historical pageant while trying to learn who holds a grudge and is plotting against the railroad.
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Flat Stanley volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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One morning after a thunderstorm, the Lambchop family is surprised to discover that Stanley is suddenly invisible.
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Peter Nimble adventures volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Raised to be a thief, blind orphan Peter Nimble, age ten, steals from a mysterious stranger three pairs of magical eyes, that lead him to a hidden island where he must decide to become a hero or resume his life of crime.
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Brides of Hope Mountain volume 3
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English
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With both her sisters gone and married, Ursula Nordegren is the only one left clinging to their grandma's fears about the outside world. But after a winter spent in isolation, even she is rethinking those warnings. She bravely starts to venture down Hope Mountain, only to stumble upon a badly wounded stranger and realize God may have had an extra special purpose behind sending her out. Wax Mosby thought he was a skilled hired gun with principles....
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Pub. Date
2014
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English
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"The next gritty, gun-slinging entry in the New York Times-bestselling series, featuring itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch. Territorial Marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are back in Appaloosa, where their work enforcing the law has been exceptionally quiet. All that is about to change. An ominous storm rolls in, and along with it a band of night riders with a devious scheme, who show up at the Rio Blanco camp, where a three-hundred-foot...
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