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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
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Wildlife biologist Deanna is caught off guard by an intrusive young hunter, while bookish city wife Lusa finds herself facing a difficult identity choice, and elderly neighbors find attraction at the height of a long-standing feud.
42) A hundred horses
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Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
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Eleven-year-old Nell must spend spring break in the country with an aunt and cousins she has never met, but while there she meets a mysterious, wild girl with a strange connection to horses and an uncanny understanding of Nell.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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"Laura and Almanzo have married and begun their new life together. They must face storms, sickness, and provide for their new baby, Rose. Their pioneer lives have trained them well, however, and they are determined to succeed"--P. [4] of cover.
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Love comes softly series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
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This story of a frontier family begins where "Love Comes Softly" left off, telling the heartwarming tale of a marriage that began in tragedy but flourished due to the couple's devotion to one another and to God. The husband and wife, Marty and Clark, have been blessed with children, and now it's time for a school to be built for all the town's youth.
47) Rose in a Storm
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"Rose is determined and focused, keeping the sheep out of danger and protecting the other creatures on the farm she calls home. But of all those she's looked after since coming to the farm as a puppy, it is Sam, the farmer, whom she watches most carefully. Awoken one cold midwinter night during lambing season, Rose and Sam struggle into the snowy dark to do their work. The ever observant Rose has seen a change in her master of late, ever since Sam's...
48) Forever hidden
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For Havyn Powell, growing up on her grandfather Chuck Bondrant's dairy outside the 1904 gold-rush boomtown of Nome, Alaska, offered all she needed. She had the love of her mother, two sisters, and grandfather. But now, at 23, Havyn realizes the stability of her life may soon vanish. Havyn is determined to find a way to keep the family together, but her grandfather's health is declining and everyone seems to be holding secrets from each other, including...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
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Fans of The Thing About Jellyfish and A Snicker of Magic will be swept away by Cindy Baldwin's debut middle grade about a girl coming to terms with her mother's mental illness. When twelve-year-old Della Kelly finds her mother furiously digging black seeds from a watermelon in the middle of the night and talking to people who aren't there, Della worries that it's happening again--that the sickness that put her mama in the hospital four years ago is...
50) Bent Road
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Celia Scott and her family move back to her husband's hometown in Kansas, where his sister died under mysterious circumstances twenty years before, and where Celia and two of her children struggle to adjust--especially when a local girl disappears.
52) A widow's hope
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Miller family series volume 1
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After the death of her husband, Hannah Brown sells her farm in Lancaster Country, Pennsylvania and moves her sheep to Holmes County, Ohio. Her deacon brother-in-law finds everything about Hannah vexing and is surprised when his own widowed brother, Seth, takes a interest in the young widow.
53) So Big
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A rollicking panarama of Chicago's high and low life, this stunning novel follows the travails of gambler's daughter Selina Peake DeJong as she struggles to maintain her dignity, her family, and her sanity in the face of monumental challenges.
54) Job wanted
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Pub. Date
℗♭2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Arriving at a farm with sore paws and an empty stomach, a dog tries to convince the farmer that he could be just as valuable as a cow, a horse, or a chicken.
56) The good earth
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
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Pearl S. Buck's epic Pulitzer prize-winning novel of a China that is now in a contemporary classics edition. Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived there," wrote Pearl Buck. In the Good Earth she presents a graphic view of a China when the...
60) Endless mercy
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"Madysen Powell has always been a forgiving person, but when her supposedly dead father shows up in Nome, Alaska, her gift for forgiveness is tested. With the recent loss of her mother, she searches for answers, leaning on Granny Beaufort, a neighbor in town, who listens with a kind heart. Still, Madysen is restless and dreams of performing her music around the world. The arrival of a traveling show could prove just the chance she needs, and the manager...