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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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When his great-uncle Daney comes to live with Cole's family after being crippled in a logging accident, the two work together all summer to find a way to make enough money to buy feed so they can keep Daney's old horse.
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Holiday, Texas is known far and wide as the most celebratory town in the South--and no shindig is complete without one of its founding members. It's a real shame the last remaining Holiday is a city slicker, but what's that old saying about putting lipstick on a pig...? Beck has no intention of being charmed by some crazy Texas town, but the minute he lays eyes on his grandfather's old honky tonk--and Charlie Walker, the beautiful cowgirl who runs...
64) Hoodoo
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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In 1930s Alabama, twelve-year-old Hoodoo Hatcher is the only member of his family who seems unable to practice folk magic, but when a mysterious man called the Stranger puts the entire town at risk from his black magic, Hoodoo must learn to conjure to defeat him.
65) Small town
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Did you know that people in small towns often walk where they need to go? They do not need to drive because places are very close together. Learn more in Small Town, a title in the I Live Here! series.
66) Cold Sassy tree
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Series
Cold Sassy series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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Grandpa Blakeslee marries a young milliner just three weeks after Granny Blakeslee has gone to her reward. Young Will is boggled by this act but becomes the newlywed's conspirator and confident; meanwhile he does some growing up on his own.
67) Silas Marner
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Embittered by a false accusation and disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a life alone with his loom and his gold. Fate steals his gold and replaces it with a golden-haired foundling child.
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Olivia hasn't seen her father since she was eight months old. But when he summons her out of the blue, Olivia travels cross country to New Hampshire to meet him. That summer, she learns to adapt to rural life and to try to understand her reclusive father. The next summer, following high school graduation, she returns to recreate her father's seventy-mile annual bike ride-reflecting on her own personal journey to understand the true...
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Irish Country books volume 12
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English
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"For decades, ever since the war, Number One Main Street, Ballybucklebo, has housed O'Reilly and his practice ... It is to Number One that patients young and old come when they need a doctor's care, for everything from the measles to a rare and baffling blood disease. An unexpected turn of events threatens to drive O'Reilly from his home for good, unless the entire village can rally behind their doctor and prove that love really can conquer all"--...
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"Long before Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly came to the colourful Irish village of Ballybucklebo, young Surgeon-lieutenant O'Reilly answered the call of duty to serve in World War II. Fingal just wants to marry his beloved Deirdre and live happily ever after. First he must hone his skills at a British naval hospital before reporting back to the HMS Warspite, where, as a ship's doctor, he faces danger upon the high seas. With German bombers a constant...
72) The lost man
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Two brothers meet at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback. In an isolated belt of Western Australia, they are each other's nearest neighbor, their homes four hours' drive apart. The third brother lies dead at their feet. Something caused Cam, the middle child who had been in charge of the family homestead, to die alone in the middle of nowhere. So the eldest brother returns with his younger sibling to the family...
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Series
SummerHill secrets volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Merry Hanson, living amongst the Amish in rural Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, relies on her Christian faith to guide her through such challenging situations as the physical abuse of her schoolmate, an arson investigation, a car accident, and an abandoned baby.
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Series
Henry Farrell novels volume 1
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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"The lone policeman in a small township on the sparse northern border [of Pennsylvania], Henry Farrell expected to spend his mornings hunting and fishing, his evenings playing old-time music. Instead, he has watched the steady encroachment of gas drilling bring new wealth and erode neighborly trust. The drug trade is pushing heroin into the territory. There are outlaws cooking meth in the woods, guys Henry grew up with. When a stranger turns up dead,...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
Families, neighbors, plumbers, and mail carriers: these are just a few of the people who live and work in a suburban community. Young readers will get to know all about these people and their role in their community through this engaging, simple text. Interesting facts and full-color photos provide readers with a look at all aspects of the suburban community, including different kinds of homes, community activities, and how people help one another....
79) Cajun Home
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The Cajun people have a long history of having to leave their homes: first in France, then later in Canada, and even in America, families were broken apart by exile and were scattered across the continent. They were pushed farther and farther south, finally into the swamps and marshes of southern Louisiana. Here, deep in the bayous and backwaters, they have created a home for themselves that is unlike any other place on earth. In beautifully composed...
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Travis starts up his chain saw-vroom, vroom!
This inspiring story of a small-time logger and his daily work will capture your little ones' attention. It is a fun tale that teaches hard work and gratitude for what this land and God give us.
Follow Travis as he works with his team, Clark the skidder and Jack the log truck, to take trees from forest to mill.
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