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1) Hardscrabble
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Belle Martin and her family move to Mingo, Colorado, in 1910 when the U.S. government offers 320 acres of land free to homesteaders.
2) City of gold
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Determined to recover his family's mules, fifteen-year-old Owen is joined by his kid brother and Telluride's notorious marshal in pursuit of a rustler--all the way to Butch Cassidy's hideout"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Determined to find his nineteen-year-old uncle and best friend, Jesse, who left for Colorado to find enough gold to pay the mortgage and save the family's Iowa farm, twelve-year-old Early Whittcomb joins up with a barber, his wife, and his daughter on a wagon train heading for the gold fields near Pike's Peak in 1858.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1885, unhappy living with her aunt and uncle in Pittsburgh, Valentine Harper disguises herself as a boy and runs away to Colorado determined to find her father who has gone there in search of gold.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In the Colorado Territory in 1875, orphan Margret and her older sister Libby are staying with the kind-hearted Mrs. Fredrickson when Margret finds an injured horse which she nurses back to health and wants to keep, while Libby is too mistrustful of people to think that they might possibly have found a home.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A grandfather tells how the family's Christmas tradition of placing a carved wooden nest with a pair of geese and their babies in the large spruce tree started years ago when his parents first settled in Colorado. A young couple begin their life together in the Colorado wilderness--they clear the land, build a house, and plan for the baby that will soon be born. But when a fierce winter storm blows in, they are left with little hope. Locker's glorious...
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