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Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
A true-life novel about Lily Casey Smith (the author's grandmother) who at age six helped her father break horses, at age fifteen left home to teach in a frontier town, and later as a wife and mother runs a vast ranch in Arizona where she survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy--but despite a life of hardscrabble drudgery still remains a woman of indomitable spirit.
2) Hondo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
He was etched by the desert's howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the Apache and the ways of staying alive. She was a woman alone raising a young son on a remote Arizona ranch. And between Hondo Lane and Angie Lowe was the warrior Vittoro, whose people were preparing to rise against the white men. Now the pioneer woman, the gunman, and the Apache warrior are caught in a drama of love, war, and honor.
3) Stargirl
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever"--T.p. verso.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
The broken gun hid the torn remnants of an old diary, a fragmented account of a cattle drive from Texas to Arizona in the 1870's. Nothing extraordinary, except that John and Clyde Toomey, with their 4,000 head of cattle and twenty-seven men, had never arrived-they seemed to have vanished off the face of the Arizona desert. Jacket.
5) Exit wounds
Author
Series
Joanna Brady mysteries volume 11
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
©2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Juggling the demands of her career and her family, Southwestern Sheriff Joanna Brady faces her most unsettling case yet in the disturbing murder of a loner and her seventeen dogs.
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