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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 12
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Helen shares her struggles with unassuming charm and intelligence: the frustration of not being able to express herself-- like wandering though a dense fog-- and the happiness of finally apprehending light breaking through the mist. The joy she felt when she first made the connection between the word water and the cold, wet liquid that poured over her fingers, comes spilling onto the pages with girlish, infectious enthusiasm. Written when she was...
2) Little women
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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From the time it was written back in 1868, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women has enchanted young readers, who identify with the realistic and lively personalities of the four March sisters. Growing up as the Civil War rages, Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy face the challenges and difficulties of life--and, sometimes, each other. Francesca Rossi's wonderful illustrations are perfect for the contemporary audience.
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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When young Emily Evans had felt God's call to start a church in a pioneer settlement, she never dreamed it would mean going alone. With over 7 million Oke books sold, this book is another memorable story in the Oke tradition.
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Julia's Last Hope is a story sent in a lumbertown in western Canada. Things are going well for John and Julia Harrigan until the sudden news of the mill closing rocks their secure world. Julia's dreams for her family seem to be crumbling around her until she decides to fight to save the home and town she loves.
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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A captivating story of a young girl who must assume responsibility for raising her younger siblings. As the challenges intensify, she is determined in her faith to raise them as her mother would have wanted.
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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One of the bestselling Christian novelists of our time, Janette Oke's books have been described as stories that never go out of style. Her readers have enjoyed and benefited from the spiritual insights and practical faith in God that accompany her homey stories. This books is the moving story of a 15-year-old who, unable to tolerate her drinking father's abuse, joins a wagon train heading West.
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Anna Trent felt fortunate to finish the eighth grade with first-class honors. Already past her sixteenth birthday, most of the girls her age had been forced long ago to drop out to help at home. She loved school--loved to learn, loved the excitement of new discoveries, loved the quickening of her pulse as she shared some great adventure in the pages of a book. And now that is over. The oldest child in a farming family with six young brothers, Anna...
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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The captivating story of Cassandra Belle Winston, a young self-centered girl who takes great pride in being called a "socialite". When she falls in love with one of her doctor father's young interns, Cassandra finds that marriage takes her to a community in the uncultured western frontier-where she must adapt or return home alone.
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Well-known and loved storyteller Janet Oke presents a beautifully told tale in her best tradition. With both anticipation and anxiety, Donnigan, a man surviving on the Western frontier alone, and Kathleen, a young girl thousands of miles away with limited prospects of finding a husband and stirrings of adventure in her heart, are at last united to begin their lives together.
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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In Heart of the Wilderness, young Kendra Marty goes to live with her grandfather after her parents die in a river accident. But what can a trapper living in the backwoods offer a small child? Will Kendra ever be ready to face the scary and confusing world far from the wilderness she loves?
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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A captivating mother-daughter story in the best Janet Oke tradition. When Sarah Perry loses her husband, she resolves that the best thing she can do for her young daughter Rebecca is send her off to a "proper" boarding school. And, years later, when Rebecca returns home, the distance between the two women can no longer be measured just in miles.
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Ariana loves her life-her parents, her little town, her job as the town's schoolteacher, her students. But one evening after classes are done and she prepares to hurry home before a blizzard hits, her whole life changes in an instant.
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
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English
Description
The stillness of the mountains, the pines covering the hillsides, the gurgle of the spring... this was her home... The prairie fires that sweep the grazing lands, the coming of white men with their guns and diseases, and the quick slaughter of the vast buffalo herds leave Running Fawn's Blackfoot tribe with little choice but to take up residence on the assigned Reserve. All her life, Running Fawn has known only contentment, but now what will become...
14) Here's Lily
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Lily is obsessed with becoming a model and she learns a valuable lesson about real beauty before the fashion show.
15) Alaska twilight
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"You're afraid of really living, Haley." He flicked his finger at her camera. "You hide behind your camera instead of stepping out and engaging life with both hands. You're so afraid you'll fail at something, you won't even try." For some people, Alaska is a breathtaking wilderness adventure, full of light and beauty. For Haley, it is a dangerous world of dark dreams and tortured memories. On the surface, she's here to document wildlife activist Kipp...
16) Simple gifts
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"When Marlene Queens has to go home to Missouri to settle her aunt's estate, she only plans to stay for a week. She never intends to run into her childhood sweetheart, get drawn back into the life of the town ... or risk revealing the secret that she's kept for years."--Publisher description.
17) The inheritance
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McKenna Ashford moves west with her rebellious younger brother Robert. U.S. Marshall Wyatt Caradon's well-meant attempt to help the young man brings him face-to-face with the one situation he never wanted to encounter--and the one woman who holds the key to helping him find his future.
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"Twelve years ago, forensic anthropologist Jamie Cash survived a brutal kidnapping, torture, and rape. After years of therapy, she has made a life for herself--though one that is haunted by memories of her terrifying past. She finally lets herself get close to a man, FBI agent Dakota Richards, when signs start appearing that point to one frightening fact--her attacker is back and ready to finish the job he started all those year ago. Can she escape...
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Erica James has spent the last three years as a skiptracer, hoping one day it will lead to her kidnapped daughter. Now she has a new suspect—P.I. Max Powell’s missing sister. Max has found evidence that connects the two missing girls. Soon the two are drawn together as they search for answers. But the kidnapper will stop at nothing to keep them from finding Erica’s daughter…
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Women of Lancaster County volume 1
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English
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"A deathbed confession, a dusty carved box containing two locks of hair and a century-old letter regarding property in Switzerland, and a burning desire to learn about her biological family lead nurse-midwife Lexie Jaeger from her home in Oregon to the heart of Pennsylvania Amish country. There she meets Marta Bayer, a mysterious lay-midwife who made hold the key to Lexie's past, but she's not talking - especially following the death of an Amish client...
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