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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When Tell and Orrin Sackett find a journal written by their father, Colburn Sackett, who disappeared in the Colorado mountains before the Civil War, they mount an expedition to retrace his route. He was part of a group of men searching for treasure, mined and buried by French soldiers in the 1790s. The Sacketts' arrival in New Orleans to make inquiries attracts the attention of both friends and enemies. Nativity Pettigrew, responsible for killing...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1956, 1981
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Fueled by youth, courage, and quickness with a gun, Matt Brennan rode into Hattan's Point ready to live or die at a single challenge. But in one day he was a changed man. A beautiful woman had dared him to stay alive. A powerful landowner had set him up for a beating. And a good friend had died in his arms. Suddenly Matt found himself owner of the Two-Bar Rancha̮nd the odd man out in a vicious range war. With enemies everywhere, Matt knew that the...
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.
11) The empty land
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Matt Coburn was going to bring law and order to Confusion, even though he had to face every kind of gunman, knife artist, and dry-gulcher there was.
14) Wayward son
Author
Series
Simon Snow volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Simon Snow is back and he's coming to America! The story is supposed to be over. Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the villain. He won the war. He even fell in love. Now comes the good part, right? Now comes the happily ever after... So why can't Simon Snow get off the couch? What he needs, according to his best friend, is a change of scenery. He just needs to see himself in a new light... That's how Simon and Penny and Baz...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wounded, dehydrated, and escaping a violent feud with the men of Bob Sutton’s ranch, Trace Jordan is near collapse when he descends from the heat of the desert into a cool, secluded canyon. He wakes to find a beautiful woman gently nursing him back to health. Strong and proud, Maria Cristina has also suffered at the hands of Sutton and his men. The experience has left her hostile and defiant. Trace, intrigued by Maria’s grit and determination,...
Author
Series
[Talon and Chantry] volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
It began with gold that had once belonged to Montezuma. Stolen and cached in a church in Mexico, it was recovered by two army officers who fled north for the French settlements. Along the way, one stabbed the other to death. The remaining officer was eventually killed by Plains Indians, but he buried the treasure just before he died. Now Ronan Chantry, a handful of trappers, and an Irish girl whose father was killed after telling her a few vague landmarks...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The year is 1876. Among the warring Indian tribes and lawless gold-rush towns of America's western territories, two paleontologists pillage the Wild West. They are hunting for dinosaur fossils, while surveilling, deceiving and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous territory plunges the arrogant and entitled Yale student William Johnson. Determined to survive a summer in the west to win...
18) Deathless divide
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
The sequel to the New York Times bestselling epic Dread Nation is an unforgettable journey of revenge and salvation across a divided America. After the fall of Summerland, Jane McKeene hoped her life would get simpler: Get out of town, stay alive, and head west to California to find her mother. But nothing is easy when you're a girl trained in putting down the restless dead, and a devastating loss on the road to a protected village called Nicodemus...
19) The red pony
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[1959?]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Raised on a ranch in northern California, Jody is well-schooled in the hard work and demands of a rancher's life. He is used to the way of horses, too; but nothing has prepared him for the special connection he will forge with Gabilan, the hot-tempered pony his father gives him. With Billy Buck, the hired hand, Jody tends and trains his horse, restlessly anticipating the moment he will sit high upon Gabilan's saddle. But when Gabilan falls ill, Jody...
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1973
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Crispin Mayo was a reckless young brawler who'd left his tiny fishing village for the vast American frontier. Headed west to join a railroad construction crew, he came upon an isolated station, and a mystery. The shack was abandoned, but fresh blood spattered the floor, and the telegraph was clicking away unattended. When Mayo stepped inside and put a hand on the telegraph key, he had no way of knowing the course of his life would change forever,...
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