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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After Merry befriends Elton, an artistically talented boy whom some of her eighth grade classmates call retarded, she must find a way to prove that he is not responsible for the damage at the farm of her Amish friend, Rachel.
Author
Series
Sugar Creek Gang volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The Sugar Creek Gang's school gets a new teacher - a man. And that spells trouble. When their old teacher shows up to surprise them with a midday sleigh ride, things start looking up for the boys. Until Bill Collins throws a snowball that accidentally hits Mr. Black, the new teacher. Learn the importance of self-sacrifice as Little Jim offers to take Bill's punishment, even though he doesn't deserve it.
3) Gee Whiz
Author
Series
Horses of Oak Valley Ranch volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Soon after her yearling, Jack, begins working with professional trainers at a nearby ranch, Abby Lovitt takes responsibility for a very large, very smart, and very curious retired racehorse named Gee Whiz.
4) A good horse
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
On her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt faces the possibility of giving up her beloved colt, Jack, when it comes to light that his dam might have been stolen.
5) Gift horse
Author
Series
Winnie the horse gentler volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Winnie Willis, a twelve-year-old girl with a gift for handling horses, finds an old mare in the pasture behind her house and struggles to keep the animal alive, reassure her father, and protect her heart from getting hurt if the horse should die or its owner appear.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Brooke is the perfect older sister. For that reason, Kari and Ashley work hard to make their parents just as proud of them as they are of Brooke. Each girl has her own talents. Brooke is an excellent student. Kari is a great soccer player. Ashley, a talented artist. And they are always there for each other. But when the news comes that Dr. Baxter is moving the family from Ann Arbor to Bloomington, Indiana, and the Baxters need to leave the only home...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tommy, the son of a Presbyterian minister in Augusta, Georgia, during the Civil War, must search his conscience to decide whether he should help a Yankee soldier escape and return home. Inspired by the early life of Woodrow Wilson.
10) True Blue
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In 1960s California, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt has trouble with True Blue, the newest horse on her family's ranch, a beautiful dappled gray who is so often spooked, Abby wonders if he is haunted by the ghost of his deceased former owner.
11) Pie in the Sky
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Abby Lovitt is put in charge of training the expensive and haughty horse Pie in the Sky when his owner refuses. While trying to get a hold on him, she must deal with the new challenges, both good and bad, that come with being a freshman in high school in 1970's Northern California"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt grows up on her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, learning to train the horses her father sells and trying to reconcile her strict religious upbringing with her own ideas about life.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Ignatius "Brother" Alderman, nearly twelve, promises to help his grandparents keep the family's Oregon ranch the same while his brothers are away and his father is deployed to Iraq, but as he comes to accept the inevitability of change, he also sees the man he is meant to be.
14) The underground
Author
Series
Left behind the kids volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Young Trib Force, Judd, Vicki, Ryan, and Lionel, unleash the power of the printed page through an underground newspaper at Nicolae High, while the authorities search with a vengeance for the kids responsible.
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