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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...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Describes life in the American West and the growth of the cattle industry, from the introduction of horses and cattle by the Spanish through the reign of the cattle barons in the late nineteenth century.
Author
Publisher
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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