David Strathairn
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Orrin and Tyrel Sackett are forced to leave their home in the Tennessee mountains when Tyrel shoots Long Higgins, after he accidentally shoots Orrin's bride-to-be. Higgins is the last of a family with which the Sacketts have been feuding. To keep from getting into a situation with the local sheriff, a distant cousin of the Sacketts, the two strike out for the western lands. With Cap Roundtree and Tom Sunday, the brothers settle in the town of Mora,...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Tell Sackett was sitting pretty, with thirty pounds of gold that were mostly his. Maybe that was why when a beautiful raven-haired woman asked to ride with him to Los Angeles, he didn't care that she came with a lot of trouble. A powerful hard ride over the blistering Mojave desert was one third of the trouble. Another third was trackers out for the woman and for his blood. The last third was getting ambushed and being left without the woman, a horse,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island's Ashcliffe Hospital in search of an escaped mental patient, but uncover true wickedness as Ashcliffe's mysterious patient treatments propel them to the brink of insanity.
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...
7) Sackett
Author
Series
Sacketts volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
William Tell Sackett had followed a different path from his youger brothers, but his name, like theirs, was spoken with respect and just a little fear. Where Orrin had brought law and order from New Mexico to the plains of Montana, backed up by the gunfightinbg talents of his brother Tye, Tell Sackett's destiny drew him to Texas afater he had to kill a man. There in the high, lonesome country, he cam upon a vein of pure gold. All he'd wanted was enough...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
The Sackett Brothers didn't know what brand of trouble had Cousin Logan stirred up, but he needed beef cattle badly. So with Tell Sackett ramrodding, Tyrel, Orrin, and Cap Rountree ride north to the wild country, pushing 1100 head of fat steers across the wide Dakota plains toward the mountains of far western Canada. Past Sioux, past Logan's treacherous enemies, through trails no cattle had ever crossed, the Sacketts drive on. Because when you step...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
A sweeping adventure of the California frontier. Here is the story of Johannes Verne, a young man left to die by his vengeful grandfather, rescued by outlaws and raised in part by the Indians of the desert. Strengthened by the love of two womenḾiss Nesselrode, whose mysterious past fires her ambitions for the future and Meghan, a willful young beautyV́erne grows to become a rugged adventurer, a man strong enough to embrace the awesome power of...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
870L
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...
11) The lonely men
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
When Tell Sackett rode into Mexico, he believed he was riding to rescue young Orry Sackett from Apache Indians, risking his life and the lives of three companions in the effort. He knew his brother, Orrin, had married, but he did not know he had a son until Orrin's wife, Laura Pritt Sackett, told him so. But Orrin was back in Washington, D.C., so it was up to Tell and his friends to save the boy. Little did Tell know that Orrin and Laura's marriage...
12) O pioneers!
Series
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
At the turn of the century, an immigrant's daughter inherits her family's Nebraska farm and her father's fierce love for the land. Fifteen years later she has made the family a fortune through her canny management of the farm, but has never forgotten the young man who left the prairie to seek his fortune.
14) The river wild
Publisher
MCA Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A woman's skills and courage are put to the ultimate test when an encounter with three mysterious strangers turns her family's white water rafting trip into a living hell.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
J. Robert Oppenheimer's life and legacy are inextricably linked to America's most famous top-secret initiative - the Manhattan Project. This biography presents a complex and revealing portrait of one of America's most influential scientists.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Takes place in the 1950's America, during the early days of broadcast journalism. It chronicles the real-life conflict between television newsman Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee. With a desire to report the facts and enlighten the public, Murrow, and his dedicated staff - headed by his producer Fred Friendly and Joe Wershba in the CBS newsroom - defy corporate and sponsorship pressures to...
Publisher
Columbia Music Video
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive documentary covering Goodman's career, this biography includes rare performance footage from the '20s and '30s, studio rehearsal footage from the '50s, home movies, rare audio tracks, and video footage of Goodman recounting his own life. Includes interviews with family, friends, and jazz contemporaries.
Publisher
Thirteen/WNET New York
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Explores the issues before the court from the aftermath of the Civil War through the 1930s. This was a period of unprecedented economic growth as the nation industrialized, but was also a time of unregulated work conditions - the court found itself squarely in the middle of what was almost class warfare.