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1) The divide
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Two backcountry skiers find the body of a young woman embedded in the ice of a remote mountain creek. All through the night, police work with arc lights and chain saws to dig her out. But identification doesn't take as long. Abbie Cooper is wanted for murder and acts of eco-terrorism, and her picture is on law-enforcement computers all across America. But just how did she die? And what was the trail of events that led this joyous, golden child of...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Tom Bedford has put his past behind him--until his son Danny is charged with murder. In the chaos of war, Danny has been caught in a violent skirmish gone bloodily awry, and the Army needs someone to pay for the mistake. Shocked into action, Tom confronts the violence in his past and fights to save the son he'd let slip away.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A forty-ton truck hurtles out of control on a snowy country road, a teenage girl on horseback in its path. In a few terrible seconds the life of a family is shattered. And a mother's quest begins -- to save her maimed daughter and a horse driven mad by pain. It is an odyssey that will bring her to... The Horse Whisperer He is the stuff of legend. His voice can calm wild horses and his touch heals broken spirits. For secrets uttered softly into pricked...
5) The loop
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A conflict breaks out between cattle ranchers and government agents in Montana over the killing of wolves, a protected species. On the positive side this is how Luke Calder, son of the leading rancher meets and falls in love with Helen Ross, a government biologist. By the author of The Horse Whisperer.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[199?]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Grace MacLean and her friend Judith go horseback riding in New York on a winter morning, but their horses lose their footing and slide onto a road, where Judith and her horse are killed by a jackknifing truck. Grace has her right leg amputated, and the incident causes a lasting trauma not only to Grace but also to her horse, Pilgrim. Grace's mother feels there's a link between her crippled, embittered daughter and Pilgrim's behavior....