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Canadian West volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A novel of two entwined love stories set in the majestic Canadian West.
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Series
Canadian West volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Christine is recovering from a broken heart. Is she willing to give up her dreams of living in the North and let God help her choose a lifelong love?"--Provided by publisher.
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English
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"Sisters Cassie and Allie Kramer dream of fame, but while Cassie got only bit parts, the younger, more beautiful, and more talented Allie rose to stardom. When Allie's body double is shot on the movie set and Allie goes missing, Cassie becomes a suspect and is convince the only way to end her nightmare is to find Allie"--
Cassie Kramer and her younger sister, Allie, learned the hazards of fame long ago. Together, they d survived the horror of a crazed...
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Series
Canadian West volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Having survived the harshness of their first year in the far Northwest, Elizabeth and Wynn, her Royal Canadian Mountie, now face new challenges, make new friends, start a new school and are presented with a new posting. Will their love for each other, hope for the future and their faith in God carry them through a crushing disappointment? The lovely young schoolteacher from the east has become a frontier woman or has she? Discover with Elizabeth the...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
When young Emily Evans went off to Bible School, she had all she could do just to keep up with her studies, let alone discover God's will for her life. That discovery seemed to be limited to thoes who had everthing together, not for those who struggled even to make it to class on time. Then comes the chapel hour when the vast needs of the prairie settlements are presented. To her suprise, Emily feels God's call into full-time Christian service.
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English
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Account of an 1882 cattle drive from Texas to the Blackfoot Agency in Montana.THE LOG OF A COWBOY, published in 1903 is one man?s reaction to the dime novel depictions of cowboy life that so distorted its true nature. Andy Adams had, by that time, spent ten years living that life. This fictionalized account of a trail drive from the southern tip of Texas to Montana on the Great Western Cattle Trail set the record straight. THE LOG OF A COWBOY has...
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Series
Canadian West volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Young, pretty, cultured and educated, Elizabeth's eastern upbringing in a rather well-to-do family has not prepared her for a teaching position on the Canadian frontier. But she squares her shoulders and takes on her formidable task with love, humor and determination. She is just as determined not to become romantically involved with a frontiersman. And then she meets Wynn.... But Beth discovers that he also has determined never to marry; that...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
One of the bestselling Christian novelists of our time, Janette Oke's books have been described as stories that never go out of style. Her readers have enjoyed and benefited from the spiritual insights and practical faith in God that accompany her homey stories. This books is the moving story of a 15-year-old who, unable to tolerate her drinking father's abuse, joins a wagon train heading West.
10) Nebraska!
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Series
Wagons West volume 2
Language
English
Description
Autumn, 1837. Blazing onward from New York to Missouri, the legendary wagon train sent by U.S. President Andrew Jackson has reached the last outpost of civilization. Now five hundred strong, these brave pioneers set a course across the great rolling plains toward the treacherous Rockies, hoping to stake a claim in the American West. Led by their new wagon master "Whip" Holt, they must unite as a team if they are to survive, despite their vast differences....
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Canadian West volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Leaving behind their dear friends in Beaver Creek, Elizabeth and Wynn take over an even more primitive outpost in the Canadian Northwest. Elizabeth finds herself totally isolated because of the Indian women's fear to even communicate with her. They thought they had already faced the most crushing disappointment of their lives when they saw little Sammy disappear from view in the arms of his father. Would they be able to survive the challenges ahead?...
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Series
Canadian West volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth's Mountie had given her his heart - could she care for it as tenderly and carefully as he cared for her? Elizabeth, the lovely young eastern schoolteacher, has braved the western frontier and spent a year teaching in a one-room schoolhouse. Now she and Wynn, her Royal Canadian Mountie, are planning their wedding and their new life together at his outpost in the far north. Will their love for each other sustain them through a harsh winter,...
13) Roses for Mama
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
A captivating story of a young girl who must assume responsibility for raising her younger siblings. As the challenges intensify, she is determined in her faith to raise them as her mother would have wanted.
14) California!
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Series
Wagons West volume 6
Language
English
Description
Violence ignoted by the gliitter of gold. Men desperate to strike it rich. Families and farms forsaken in a wild rush West to stake a claim. String men and courageous women struggle across an untamed continent to gamble their last dollar in overnight boom towns or die bushwacked by outlaws. Some become valiant fighters in places where six-shooters keep the peace. No risk is too great, no depravity too low--when men catch gold fever and dream of quick...
15) Deep freeze
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Series
West Coast volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Jenna Hughes left Hollywood for a farm in Oregon to get away from fame. But someone has followed the former movie star - an obsessed fan whose letters are personal and deeply disturbing. And while Jenna's already shaken up by what she's seen on paper, she'd be terrified if she knew what Sheriff Shane Carter is investigating. It's a shocking case that started with the discovery of a dead woman in the woods. Now two more women are missing, and one of...
17) The cowboys
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Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
[1973]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Drawings, rare photographs, personal anecdotes, and other forms of memorabilia convey the true nature of the American cowboy and his work
18) The Soldiers
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Series
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English
Description
Pictorial survey of the U.S. Army soldier's daily life in the early West, his Indian wars, Custer's last stand, etc.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Julia's Last Hope is a story sent in a lumbertown in western Canada. Things are going well for John and Julia Harrigan until the sudden news of the mill closing rocks their secure world. Julia's dreams for her family seem to be crumbling around her until she decides to fight to save the home and town she loves.