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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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The victim, well dressed but stripped of identification, is found at the edge of the vast Jicarilla Apache natural gas field just inside the jurisdiction of the Navajo Tribal Police, facing Sergeant Jim Chee with a complex puzzle.
Why did the Washington office of the FBI snatch custody of this case from its local agents, cover it with secrecy, and call it a hunting accident? What was the victim seeking among the maze of pipelines and pumping stations...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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"Retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is called upon once again to solve a crime. This time it's Joe's last case, a case that remains unsolved and contines to haunt him."--From source other than the Library of Congress
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Nothing had seemed complicated about the old "Golden Calf" case. A con game had gone sour. Wealthy old Wiley Denton had shot the swindler, called the police, confessed, and done his short prison time. No mystery there, except why did the rich man's bride vanish? And now, papers found by Sergeant Jim Chee and Officer Bernie Manuelito in a new homicide case connect the victim to Denton and to the mythical Golden Calf Mine.
4) Skeleton Man
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
While the collision of airliners central to the plot of this book was real and triggered the creation of the Federal Aviation Administration and its flight safety rules, the story and all of its characters are purely fictional. However, several of these fictional folks use names borrowed from generous donors to fund to assist children stricken with cancer.
5) Burn
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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She escaped the fire--but not the effects of the burn.
Janeal has long felt trapped in her father's Gypsy culture. Then one night a powerful man named Salazar Sanso promises her the life she longs for--if she will help recover a vast sum of money tied to her father.
When the plan implodes, Sanso and his men attack the gypsy settlement and burn it to the ground. During the blaze, Janeal is faced with a staggering choice.
The impact of that moment...
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Sister Agatha mysteries volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Sister Agatha is an extern nun in the cloistered order at the Our Lady of Hope Monastery near a small New Mexican desert town. As such, Sister Agatha is the link between her cloistered sisters and the outside world. Usually this means running errands in the monastery's slowly dying car (dubbed the Anti-Chrystler) or their motorcycle, with Pax, the order's German Shepard, in the sidecar. But sometimes it means something a bit more, like now when the...
9) Radigan
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"When beautiful Angelina Foley presents Tom Radigan with a Spanish grant and claims ownership of his land, he realizes he's up against a cunning and deadly opportunist. Foley wants him off Vache Creek immediately, and with three thousand head of cattle, an outfit of hardcase gunfighters, and winter coming on, she is unwilling to take no for an answer. But Radigan has worked four hard years building up his ranch. Fighting for it--and, if he has to,...
10) Miss Meteor
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"There hasn't been a winner of the Miss Meteor beauty pageant who looks like Lita Perez or Chicky Quintanilla in all its history. But that's not the only reason Lita wants to enter the contest, or her ex-best friend Chicky wants to help her. The road to becoming Miss Meteor isn't about being perfect; it's about sharing who you are with the world--and loving the parts of yourself no one else understands. So to pull off the unlikeliest underdog story...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Pancho is bent on avenging the senseless death of his sister, but after he meets D.Q, who is dying of cancer, and Marisol, one of D.Q.'s caregivers, both boys find their lives changed by their interactions.
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Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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In his novels, best-selling author Cormac McCarthy creates a western landscape filled with characters that are both myhic and authentic. Cities of the Plain, the stunning conclusion of his award-winning Border trilogy, brings together John Grady Cole and Billy Parham-the two lifelong friends who began their adventures in All the Pretty Horses. It is 1952. As Grady and Billy work a remote New Mexico ranch, Grady falls in love with a young Mexican prostitute....
13) Shalako
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
He was a loner and a brooding man who trusted nothing and no one -- a white man as cunning as any Indian who owned nothing but his horse, his saddle and his guns. He was a man willing to gamble his life to get the woman he wanted. He was Shalako. Now Shalako is determined to cross the bleak Sonora Desert -- the Apaches' killing ground -- alone. On his way, he finds a European hunting party -- and a brave and beautiful young woman -- stranded and defenseless....
14) Red mesa
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Author
Series
Lee Nez novels volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Author
Series
Anasazi mysteries volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
17) Changing woman
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
18) Leaving Eldorado
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In the late 1890s, after her gold-mad father abandons her in the small New Mexico Territory mining town of Eldorado, fourteen-year-old Maude struggles to survive and to hold onto her dream of becoming an artist.
Author
Series
Sister Agatha mysteries volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When his best friend Eddie Chavez disappears after they have spent the day together in the mountains of New Mexico, fifteen-year-old Alex cannot get anyone to believe his story and is even suspected of murdering the missing boy.
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