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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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"Eleven-year-old Perry was born and raised by his mom at the Blue River Co-ed Correctional Facility in tiny Surprise, Nebraska. His mom is a resident on Cell Block C, and so far Warden Daugherty has made it possible for them to be together. That is, until a new district attorney discovers the truth--and Perry is removed from the facility and forced into a foster home. When Perry moves to the "outside" world, he feels trapped. Desperate to be reunited...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Ralph Moody, just turned twenty, had only a dime in his pocket when he was put off a freight in western Nebraska. It was the Fourth of July in 1919. Three months later he owned eight teams of horses and rigs to go with them. Everyone who worked with him shared in the prosperity - the widow whose wheat crop was saved and the group of misfits who formed a first-rate harvesting crew. But sometimes fickle Mother Nature and frail human nature made sure...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
Ted Hammond, the only sixth grader in his small Nebraska town's one-room schoolhouse, searches for clues to the disappearance of a homeless family. Ted Hammond learns that in a very small town, there's no such thing as an isolated event. And the solution of one mystery is often the beginning of another.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Fourteen-year-old Hope visits her new foster mother's Nebraska farm and, through old letters, a diary, and stories, gets a vivid picture of the past in the voices of four girls her age who lived there in 1869, 1900, 1936, and 1960.
6) Worth
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
After breaking his leg, eleven-year-old Nate feels useless because he cannot work on the family farm in nineteenth-century Nebraska, so when his father brings home an orphan boy to help with the chores, Nate feels even worse.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Fortified with Yankee ingenuity and western can-do energy, the Moody family, transplanted from New England, builds a new life on a Colorado ranch early in the twentieth century. Father has died and Little Britches shoulders the responsibilities of a man at age eleven.--From publisher description.
Author
Series
Hometown hunters (Lane Walker) volume 2
Hometown hunters collection volume 2
Hometown hunters collection volume Book 2
Hometown hunters collection volume 2
Hometown hunters collection volume Book 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"A thunderous sound echoed through the stormy Nebraska countryside. The hair on the backs of their necks stood up. But it wasn't lightning. For twins Kent and Kyle Morris, there was only one creature who could make such a loud noise--it was Scarface! When they set out on an adventure to discover the secrets of the huge thunder chicken and finally bag him, another surprising opportunity arose that could change the fortunes of their family forever....
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Following her father's death from a disease that swept through her Nebraska town in 1881, teenaged Sarah Jane must find work to support herself and records in her diary her experiences as a young school teacher.
11) Prairie Songs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The Nebraska prairie was a barren place that offered beauty and peace to some, loneliness and madness to others. Prairie Songs provides a beautifully written insight into this contrast. Louisa and her shy brother Lester live quite contentedly with their parents when the new doctor arrives with his beautiful and fragile pregnant wife, Emmeline. All work to help the new couple adjust to harsh weather, buffalo chips, soddies and Indians; Emmeline agrees...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1881, fifteen-year-old Tad, an orphan, helps a girl attempting to get a mighty Indian elephant to friends in Nebraska, all the while pursued by two unscrupulous villains who claim that the elephant is theirs.
15) My Daniel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Ellie and Stevie learn about a family legacy when their grandmother tells them stories of her brother's historical quest for dinosaur bones on their Nebraska farm.
16) Prairie songs
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1987, c1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
17) Nebraska
Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about Nebraska. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--
19) Nebraska
Author
Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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