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Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Ignatius "Brother" Alderman, nearly twelve, promises to help his grandparents keep the family's Oregon ranch the same while his brothers are away and his father is deployed to Iraq, but as he comes to accept the inevitability of change, he also sees the man he is meant to be.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Hank learns about a tool thief on the loose who uses a monkey to help him do his dirty work. And before long, Hank finds himself face-to face with the pilfering primate! Can Hank help to stop the criminals in their tracks, or will the crooks get away to continue their monkey business?
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter's gripping portrait of one western family struggling to hold on to age-old American ways
New York Times reporter and bestselling author John Branch takes listeners to the magnificent red soil and rocky arroyos of southern Utah, where the Wright family of Smith Mesa have for generations raised cattle and world-champion saddle-bronc riders—some call them the most successful rodeo family in
...67) Dairy queen
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A follow-up to The Trouble with Chickens finds search-and-rescue dog J.J. struggling with jealousy over Moosh's friendship with a fashionable new neighbor, a situation that is complicated by a raiding possum and questions about the neighbor's integrity.
69) The fling
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Abandoned and lost in a strange town, Hank the Cowdog, law-abiding head of ranch security, embarks on a spree of fun and mischief with a jailhouse mutt named Ralph.
73) The lost man
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Two brothers meet at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback. In an isolated belt of Western Australia, they are each other's nearest neighbor, their homes four hours' drive apart. The third brother lies dead at their feet. Something caused Cam, the middle child who had been in charge of the family homestead, to die alone in the middle of nowhere. So the eldest brother returns with his younger sibling to the family...
74) Claiming ground
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In 1977, Laura Bell, at loose ends after graduating from college, leaves her family home in Kentucky for a wild and unexpected adventure: herding sheep in Wyoming's Big Horn Basin. By turns cattle rancher, forest ranger, outfitter, masseuse, wife and mother, Bell vividly recounts her struggle to find solid earth in which to put down roots.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tractors are in the spotlight in this title published jointly with New Holland Agriculture. Readers will learn what parts tractors have, how they work, and how farmers use these machines.
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Kids
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This title introduces little readers to animals they might find on the farm. Complete with a More Facts section and bolded glossary terms. Readers will gather basic information about farm animals through easy-to-read, simple text alongside beautiful full-bleed photographs. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids is a division of ABDO.
Author
Series
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"En years after her parents were killed, Evelyn Radcliffe is once more homeless. The orphanage that was her refuge and later her workplace has burned to the ground, and only she and a young orphan girl have escaped. Convinced this must be related to her parents' murders, Evelyn flees with the girl to Mesquite Springs in the Texas Hill Country and finds refuge in the home of Wyatt Clark, a talented horse rancher whose plans don't include a family of...
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