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1) Hondo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Hondo Lane was a man who'd come to terms with the hard land in which he lived. He rode dispatch for General Crook through the Arizona desert-a severe and beautiful landscape where one mistake could lead to a quick and lonely death. It was on the way to deliver an important message about an imminent Apache raid that he came upon an isolated ranch defended by a lone woman and her young son. But Angie Lowe wasn't just any woman. She was a fighter with...
3) Lando
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Orlando Sackett got to Texas with a damn good idea of the whereabouts of buried gold across the border in Mexico. In Mexico he had bad luck. His party had to run for it, and when Lando stood rear guard they pulled out and left him. Six years in a Mexican prison put muscles in his arms, fire in his heart and pure recklessness in his head. He survived by using his skills as a boxer and by making three vows. One was to find the men who betrayed him....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Van Allen was a strong, arrogant man who rode roughshod over anything that got in his way. Brutal and uncaring with women, he suddenly found himself guilty of an ugly murder and in a panic, tried to cover it up and destroy the evidence. Tell Sackett was a part of that evidence, but he was not going to be easy to get rid of. Allen murdered Tell's wife, Angie, while he was away. When he returned, one of Allen's men shot him and left him for dead. Despite...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
After the massacre Hardy and Betty Sue were left with only a horse and a knife with which to face the long battle against the wilderness. A seven-year-old boy and a three-year-old girl, stranded on the limitless prairie. They were up against starvation, marauding Indians, savage outlaws, and wild animals. They were mighty stubborn, but the odds were against them -- and their luck was about to run out.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
They had him cornered-up on a canyon rim with no way to go but down! There was a rock big as a buckboard right on the edge of the cliff. Trace Jordan bent, took hold and heaved. he felt his wound bust loose, but the rock rolled free. There was the rattle of stones behind it, then the echoing screams of a man and horse falling away in the darkness.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Crispin Mayo finds himself involved in the battle of his life when he inadvertently comes upon an abandoned telegraph station -- the scene of a crime -- and a band of Civil War veterans with a score to settle.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the first half of the story of Barnabus, the patriarch of the Sackett clan, and his migration to North America in 1600. His saga begins when he discovers a purse of gold coins in the mud of Devil's Dyke in Finland. On the run from English authorities, he meets and marries Abigail Tempany, the daughter of a sea captain. Nick Bardle, the master of a merchant vessel, the Jolly Jack, is half pirate, ready to take any advantage of any activity...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the concluding volume of the saga of Barnabus Sackett, patriarch of that family. He returns to England, where he learns of an order for his arrest. The gold coins he found in Sackett's land are thought to be the royal treasure King John lost in the Wash during the time of the Crusades. After encountering some old friends and enemies from the previous book, he returns to America with Abigail, his new bride. He establishes a community between...
11) Catlow
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Catlow heard the legend of the Mexican gold. Catlow hijacked the mule train carrying it. He knew the U. S. law and the entire Mexican army was after him. He didn't care. He had all the answers -- except how to get through Seri Indian country rich and alive.
12) Jubal Sackett
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
In Jubal Sackett, the second generation of this great American family pursues a destiny in the wilderness of a sprawling new land. Kindred spirits on a restless quest ... Jubal Sackett's urge to explore drove him westward, and when a Natchez priest asks him to undertake a nearly impossible quest, Sackett ventures into the endless grassy plains the Indians call the Far Seeing Lands. He seeks a Natchez exploration party and its leader, Itchakomi. It...
13) Killoe
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Language
English
Description
Dan Killoe had a trail herd and settlers to get across unknown territory to a new land, but when he gave shelter to a stranger, he was borrowing more trouble than he wanted to handle.
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Language
English
Description
"Ross Hardy had made his decision. He sat in the middle of all he owned, a splendid Appaloosa gelding, a fine California saddle, a .44 Winchester rifle, and two walnut-stocked Colt .44 pistols. These were his all. It was a life that had left him rich in experience but poor in good of the world. The experience was the hard-fisted experience of cold winters, dry ranges, and the dusty bitterness of cattle drives. He had fought Comanches and rustlers,...