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Author
Series
Brides of Gallatin County volume 2
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
All Beth Gallatin has really wanted out of life is to settle down in one town, with one man, and raise a family. But with her father's roaming ways, she's always been denied that dream; instead, she found solace in reading romantic books. With her father's passing, she can, for the first time, dare to claim the rugged Montana frontier as her home. Nick Lassiter has loved Beth since she first came to town, but she's always seemed to think of him more...
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
During their first four years of marriage, Laura and Almanzo Wilder have a child and fight a losing battle in their attempts to succeed at farming on the South Dakota prairie.
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Laura learns that living away from home and teaching school can be a bit frightening when most of the students are taller than she is, but every week Almonzo Wilder arrives to take her home for the weekend.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Lacy Gallatin, the youngest Gallatin sister, is a woman with a mission: to find her father's killer. Haunted by the belief that she's failed him, Lacy is also battling a desire to have something more than revenge, something she can't quite figure out. Enter Dave Shepard, deputy sheriff. Dave has been fervently trying to find the man who killed George Gallatin, but he always feels inadequate when it comes to beautiful Lacy. The tension crackles between...
Author
Series
Heart of the frontier volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
With the aid of trapper Alex Armistead, widow Grace Martindale uses her midwifery skills to help the natives in the untamed Oregon Country, but not everyone welcomes her presence, and she finds herself in more danger than she could have imagined.
Author
Series
Brides of Gallatin County volume 1
Language
English
Description
After years spent following their father and his wanderlust, the three Gallatin sisters begin to fashion a life for themselves in the Montana wilds, operating a roadhouse at the crossroads of two stage lines. When their father is accidently killed, however, the oldest sister, Gwen, reasons that she's cursed. Death seems to haunt her every step. As the sisters work to maintain the roadhouse, an unexpected visitor arrives, sending Gwen into turmoil....
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to the Wild West, where they experience excitement and danger and try to solve a riddle.
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.
12) The high divide
Author
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by her husband and her two sons who went out to search for him, Gretta Pope must follow her family across the rugged badlands of 1880s Montana.
13) Old Yeller
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country ranks high in the annals of boy and dogdom. Gipson, in earlier books, has evinced an evocative quality which recaptures for the reader the sounds, the smells, the sights of the region he knows and loves, recaptures too the emotional quality, the moods of his central figure. This was particularly true in Hound-Dog Man, which for some readers was marred by the vernacular. In Old Yeller the story...
14) The long winter
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A severe blizzard isolates the Dakota town in which Laura and Mary live. A desperate need for food sends Almanzo and another boy on a dangerous trip across the prairie. In May the snow melted and brought the Ingalls' Christmas barrel and the gayest celebration ever.
15) Absaroka Valley
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Samuel Parker is traveling through the mountains hoping to find a place to settle his two children before lung fever kills him when they help an injured man whom Samuel fears may be an outlaw. As the man heals, he directs Samuel to Absaroka Valley where they are drawn into the center of a land fight"--
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Pa's homestead thrives, Laura gets her first job in town, blackbirds eat the corn and oats crops, Mary goes to college, and Laura gets into trouble at school, but becomes a certified school teacher.
17) My Antonia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The reminiscences of a New York lawyer, Jim Burden, about his boyhood in Nebraska, particularly a young Bohemian girl named Antonia Shimerda, are set against the backdrop of the American assimilation of the immigrant.
18) Dark Territory
Author
Series
Sheriff Aaron Mackey Westerns volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the boomtown of Dover Station, Montana, tracks have been laid and everyone's looking to make a fortune, lawfully or not. And the law has something to say about it--one bullet at a time"--
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 23
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn," they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers and they experience the terror of a tornado.
20) Trouble River
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
[1969]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When he builds his raft, a twelve-year-old boy never dreams that it will serve as the sole means of escape for himself and his grandmother when hostile Indians threaten their prairie cabin.
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