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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"A special 25th anniversary edition of Paulo Coehlo's extraordinary international bestselling phenomenon--the inspiring spiritual tale of self-discovery that has touched millions of lives around the world.Combing magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations. Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical...
2) Old Ramon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
A wise old shepherd teaches a young boy lessons about survival, bravery, wisdom, and friendship as he shows him how to take care of a flock of sheep in the harsh Mojave Desert.
4) Devil's day
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Language
English
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Description
"In the wink of an eye, as quick as a flea, / The Devil he jumped from me to thee. / And only when the Devil had gone, / Did I know that he and I'd been one ... Every autumn, John Pentecost returns to the farm where he grew up, to help gather the sheep down from the moors for the winter. Very little changes in the Endlands, but this year, his grandfather--the Gaffer--has died and John's new wife, Katherine, is accompanying him for the first time....
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the early 1800s, when nine-year-old Josefina accompanies her father into the New Mexican mountains to check on the elderly shepherd who works for him and she proves herself a good traveling companion when her father has an accident.
7) Coyote cry
Author
Language
English
Description
When a coyote steals one of his collie's pups to raise, a shepherd boy learns that wild creatures must follow their instincts.
Author
Publisher
[Stu Campbell]
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
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Description
"He'd been a good hand on the ranches he'd worked, and while he was out on the ranches, he'd stayed out of trouble. It was when he went to town and got drunk that he got into trouble. He was sitting in his parole officer's outer office weighing out his options when he was called into the officer's office. 'Had any luck finding a job?' asked the parole officer. 'Nope,' answered the ex-con. 'What kind of work are you looking for?' 'Anything on a ranch...
9) Lapvona
Author
Language
English
Description
"In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh's most exciting leap yet Little Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, never knew his mother; his father told him she died in childbirth. One of life's few consolations for Marek...
Author
Series
Jerusalem Road volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Yeshua of Nazareth has two sisters: Damaris, married to a wealthy merchant's son, and Pheodora, married to a simple shepherd from Bethlehem. When Pheodora's husband suffers an unexpected reversal of fortune and is thrown into debtor's prison, she returns to Nazareth, where she pins her hopes on two she-goats who should give birth to spotless white kids that would be perfect for the upcoming Yom Kippur sacrifice. In the eighteen months between the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Shunned by the Amish community, shepherd Carl King has given up on his dream for a family. Yet, when captivating Lizzie Barkman shows up at the sheep farm where he works, Carl sees the wife he once dreamed of. Lizzie is looking for a new start for herself and her sisters, and discovers Carl to be a kind and gentle man who cares deeply about the Amish way of life. But he is under the bann. Is it possible that this forbidden man holds the key to her...
Author
Language
English
Description
On a hillsdie near the cozy Irish village of Glennkill, the members of the flock gather around their shepherd, George, whose body lies pinned to the ground with a spade. George has cared for the sheep, reading them a plethora of books every night. The daily exposure to literature has made them far savvier about the workings of the human mind than your average sheep. Led by Miss Maple, the smartest sheep in Glennkill, they set out to find George's...
15) Dilly
Author
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"DILLY is the coming-of-age story of an abused orphan boy, Orville Dillard Jr., aka Dilly, who travels west from Ohio to Wyoming and ends up at the Hatterson Cattle Ranch. He also finds himself smack in the middle of the infamous and all-too-real Sheep Wars, in which dozens of sheepherders are murdered and few of the attacking cattlemen are ever held accountable"--
17) El niño pastor
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1994
Language
Español
Description
As a young Navajo boy brings his family's sheep home one evening, he discovers one is missing and sets out to rescue it before nightfall.
Author
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A safe, quiet life...that's what shepherdess Clementine Simon wants for her niece and nephew. There's nothing safe or quiet about globe-trotting cameraman Liam Murphy. It's only right that life pulled them in separate directions. But when he returns temporarily; old feelings resurface. Can she take the biggest risk of all...falling in love?"--Page 4 of cover.
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