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1) Old Yeller
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
In the rugged landscape of early frontier Texas, fourteen-year-old Travis is faced with taking over his family's farm and making a painful, important decision.
Author
Series
Little house books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
"Laura Ingalls and her family live deep in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Their log cabin is surrounded by miles of trees, and their closest neighbors are bears, wolves, and panthers. Daily chores keep Laura and her sister Mary busy, but they still find time to go exploring with their dog, Jack"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Laura has her first experiences as a teacher, and is courted by Almanzo Wilder.
Fifteen-year-old Laura learns that living away from home and teaching school can be a bit frightening when most of the students are taller than she is, but every week Almanzo Wilder arrives to take her to her family for the weekend.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
"Laura Ingalls is heading west! The Ingalls family packs up their covere wagon and sets off for the big skies of the Kansas Territory, where wide open land stretches as far as the eye can see. Just when they begin to feel settled, they are caught in the middle of a dangerous conflict"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
They called him Scholar. Ronan Chantry took his prized Ferguson rifle and went west to die. He found himself a civilized man in the rugged wilderness. He joined up with some rough trappers and traveled on--until they met up with hostile Indians, a beautiful girl looking for a 200-year-old treasure, and her treacherous uncle. They were all fighting for their lives. And then Chantry found out how brave he really was ...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
California's gold country, 1850. Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. Then she meets Michael Hosea, a man who seeks his Father's heart in everything. He obeys God;s call to marry Angel and to love her unconditionally. Defying Angel's every bitter expectations, despite her resistance her frozen heart begins to thaw. But overcome by feelings of unworthiness and fear,...
8) Lone women
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It's locked at all times. Because when the trunk opens, people around Adelaide start to disappear. The year is 1915, and Adelaide is in trouble. Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and make her way to Montana as a homesteader. Dragging the trunk with her at every stop, she will become one of the "lone women" taking advantage...
Author
Series
Great western edition volume 45
Language
English
Description
This novel is an expanded version of Open Range written by Zane Grey. Following Grey's death, his estate allowed a ghost writer to expand the story "Open Range" into a longer novel for publication and movie rights. The stories are very similar.
10) Inland
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives collide. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life--her husband, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her elder sons, who have vanished after an explosive argument. Nora is biding her time with her youngest son, who is convinced that a mysterious beast is stalking the land around their home....
Author
Language
English
Description
When Tabitha Brown's son makes the fateful decision to leave Missouri and strike out for Oregon, she refuses to be left behind. Despite her son's concerns, Tabitha hires her own wagon to join the party. Along with her reluctant daughter and her ever-hopeful granddaughter, the intrepid Tabitha has her misgivings. But family ties are stronger than fear. The trials they face along the way will severely test Tabitha's faith, courage, and ability to hope....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
1110L
Language
English
Description
Frontier life through the eyes of Sarah Agnes Prine, a rancher's wife in Arizona who has to deal with Indians and outlaws, rifle in hand. Stuck in a loveless marriage, her romantic life picks up when her husband dies and she meets an army captain. Told in the form of a diary and based on a real-life person.
15) Silverado
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
A fast-riding adventure story of four strangers drawn together on the Western frontier.
16) High lonesome
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Many a hardcase had died trying to take the bank and settle an old score at the same time. But he never counted on meeting a beautiful woman and her trail-savvy but reckless father, headed straight for Apache country. Now Considine and his gang can either ride like hell for the border just ahead of an angry posse, or join the old man and his daughter in a desperate last stand against blood-hungry warriors. The choice is simple: risk the hangman's...
18) Centennial
Author
Language
English
Description
A stunning panorama of the West, Centennial is an enthralling celebration of our country, brimming with the glory and the greatness of the American past that only bestselling author James Michener could bring to stunning life. From the Native Americans, the migrating white men and women, the cowboys, and the foreigners, it is a story of trappers, traders, homesteaders, gold seekers, ranchers, and hunters -- all caught up in the dramatic events and...
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Language
English
Description
*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award*
*A New York Times Notable Book*
*Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award*
This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West "is nothing short of a revelation...will leave dust...
*A New York Times Notable Book*
*Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award*
This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West "is nothing short of a revelation...will leave dust...
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