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1) The cowboys
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Series
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Time-Life Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Series
Lonesome Dove saga volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 58
Language
English
Description
Chronicles a cattle drive in the nineteenth century from Texas to Montana, and follows the lives of Gus and Call, the cowboys heading the drive, Gus's woman, Lorena, and Blue Duck, a sinister Indian renegade.
The drive is a risk, sure, but it's a part of the American Dream, a chance to carve a new life out of the last remaining wilderness.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Ira Levinson is in trouble. At ninety-one years old, in poor health and alone in the world, he finds himself stranded on an isolated embankment after a car crash. Suffering multiple injuries, he struggles to retain consciousness until a blurry image materializes and comes into focus beside him: his beloved wife Ruth, who passed away nine years ago. Urging him to hang on, she forces him to remain alert by recounting the stories of their lifetime together...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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His background is shadowy, his presence commanding. He brings law and order to a frontier town and wins the love of a pretty schoolteacher from the East. He is the Virginian -- the first fully realized cowboy hero in American literature, a near-mythic figure whose idealized image has profoundly influenced our national consciousness. This enduring work of fiction marks his first appearance in popular culture -- the birth of a legend that lives with...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A ferocious firefight with Iraqi insurgents -- three minutes and forty-three seconds of intense warfare caught on tape by an embedded Fox News crew -- has transformed the eight surviving men of Bravo Squad into America's most sought-after heroes. Now they're on a media-intensive nationwide tour to reinvigorate support for the war. On this rainy Thanksgiving Day, the Bravos are guests of the Dallas Cowboys, slated to be part of the halftime show alongside...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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It's the early 1900's and the weather-beaten cowhand, Hewey Calloway rides in from the vast Texas range after learning his brother's farm is in danger of foreclosure. Arriving in a nearby town, what the middle-aged roughrider finds amazes yet threatens him-- automobiles and civilized society. Soon the local schoolteacher catches his eye which places Hewey in a unique situation. Surrounded by his brother's family and with a strong attraction to the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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"Shane Morgan's world is shattered when his mother is killed in a car accident. His father and hero, a famous rodeo star, drowns his sorrow in booze and soon is just a rodeo clown with a drinking problem. Then the two inherit a small ranch, and Shane looks forward to having a real home, making friends, and getting through a whole school year in the same place. But things don't go well at school or at home. In fact, Shane and his father seem to be...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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In his acclaimed debut novel, Durham adds a new dimension to the frontier narrative. Gabriel, the teenaged son of an emancipated slave, travels west with his mother, who is lured by the promise of unclaimed land. Despising life as a farmer, Gabriel runs away with a dangerous band of cowboys. But hindered by youth and inexperience, he must escape the racism and brutality that surround him.
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Series
Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick--a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins--encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a "skin man," Roland Deschain takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, "The Wind through the Keyhole."
11) Crossfire Trail
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Rafe Caradec promises a dying man that he will save the Long Valley ranch in Wyoming for the man's wife and daughter. But the daughter does not trust him and plays into the greedy hands of enemy ranchers.
12) Of mice and men
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they...
13) Silver canyon
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Young Matt Brennan is left as owner of the Two-Bar Ranch which lies right in the middle of an ongoing range war.
14) Gabriel's Story
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Anchor
Pub. Date
2002,c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
After the Civil War, Gabriel, an African American teenager, decides farming is not for him and runs away with a group of cowboys headed for Texas where he experiences racism, violence, and eventually murder.
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