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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression
They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation.
Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence....
They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation.
Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence....
2) Calder storm
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Language
English
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Description
Newly married and with a baby on the way, Trey Calder makes a shocking discovery about his wife, freelance photographer Sloan Davis, that places his family in the path of a dangerous enemy who is out for revenge.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Drake Carson is the quintessential cowboy. In charge of the family ranch, he knows the realities of this life, its pleasures and heartbreaks. Lately, managing the wild stallions on his property is wearing him down. When an interfering so-called expert arrives and starts offering her opinion, Drake is wary, but he can't deny the longing - and the challenge - she stirs in him. Luce Hale is researching how wild horses interact with ranch animals - and...
11) Calder pride
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
After her fiance is killed, Cat Calder, a Montana rancher's daughter vows never to marry, but sex with a stranger is acceptable. The result is a son and years later when the stranger is appointed sheriff and she faces danger her vow is tested.
Author
Series
Border trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Texas cowboy falls in love with a Mexican prostitute, only to discover he has a rival, her pimp. The pimp refuses to let her go because he will lose money and the stage is set for a violent confrontation.
13) Chasing the sun
Author
Series
Blood rose trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
14) The haymeadow
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old John comes of age and gains self-reliance during the summer he spends up in the Wyoming mountains tending his father's herd of sheep.
15) Chico
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When six-year-old Sandra rides her horse, Chico, to see the newborn calf on her father's ranch, she encounters a rattlesnake and depends on Chico to get them back safely.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
A cowboy struggles to adapt to the modern world in 1910s Texas. Hewey Calloway finds it difficult to accept fences, cars and, worst of all--sheep. Also, he is advancing in years, though here there is a consolation, he is teaching the trade to his nephew.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Cully the cowboy, a friend and a father figure to Evan, fails to show up at the ranch on an icy Christmas Eve, Evan goes out into the night to find and rescue him.
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