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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery.
2) QB 1
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Jake Cullen, fourteen, lives in the shadows of his father and older brother until he becomes the starting quarterback for the high school football team and finally has his chance to shine.
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 54
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Unaware that his nemesis Pete the Barncat is playing yet another prank on him, Hank the Cowdog, Head of Ranch Security, tries to save the world from "terradogtail" dinosaur birds armed with bacon-stealing laser tongs.
4) The big game
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
Danny Owens is dedicating his seventh-grade football season to his recently-deceased father, an NFL legend, but the pressure to succeed is magnified by his inability to read.
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 51
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"The heat is on! It's summertime, and the weather on Hank's West Texas ranch is hot and dry. So dry, in fact, that everyone is on the lookout for prairie fires. So Hank bravely adds the title of Head of Fire Safety to his already impressive list of responsibilities and gets to work. But patrolling for fires is dull, and it's hard to do on an empty stomach. Despite the distraction - desperate hunger, a cruel trick at the hands of Pete the Cat...
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 52
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
At the request of his beloved Beulah the collie, Hank the Cowdog puts aside his urge to chew plastic and sets off in search of his nemesis, Plato the wayward bird dog.
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 59
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Hank finds himself in competition with a new dog, Happy, who seems perfect until it is discovered that he will eat anything.
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 55
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
"There's a burglar on the loose, and he's robbing houses with the help of a super-sneaky, super-stinky, secret weapon. As Head of Security, Hank knows it's his job to protect the ranch and all the buildings on it. So when a suspicious character comes sniffing around Slim's bachelor shack, Hank heads right into action. But does Hank have what it takes to save the day--even after getting caught in the spray of some very unsavory artillery?"--From publisher...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Twelve-year-old Selah aspires to be an equestrian superstar. That would require a horse but her Grandpa wants nothing to do with horses. Then Selah sees buzzards circling the grasslands behind Grandpa's farm. They are stalking a horse trapped in wire and Selah is its only hope.
11) Canyons
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Finding a skull on a camping trip in the canyons outside El Paso, Texas, Brennan becomes involved with the fate of a young Apache Indian who lived in the late 1800s.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Twelve-year-old Quijana is a biracial girl, desperately trying to understand the changes that are going on in her life; her mother rarely gets home before bedtime, her father suddenly seems to be trying to get in touch with his Guatemalan roots (even though he never bothered to teach Quijana Spanish), she is about to start seventh grade in the Texas town where they live and she is worried about fitting in--and Quijana suspects that her parents are...
13) Butterfly yellow
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
A Vietnam War refugee in Texas partners with a city boy with rodeo dreams to track down the younger brother she was separated from six years before when he was evacuated by American troops during the waning days of the Vietnam War
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
It's a blustery day in late fall, and Hank decides to sneak into the back of Slim's pickup and hitch a ride with the cowboys to a neighbor's fall branding. However, instead of running into either Miss Viola or the beautiful Miss Beulah the Collie, as he'd hoped. Hank finds himself on the Baxter's ranch!
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 60
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Description
It's the day before Christmas, and Loper and Sally May have left Slim to manage the ranch while they go off to visit relatives for the holidays. But, a storm blows in and the electric fence separating a herd of steers from the highway shorts out.Now it's up to Slim, Viola and the ranch's Security Division to jump into action!
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 57
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
Hank and Drover are excited when a quick nap in the back of Slim's pickup turns into a trip to town. But the excitement turns to drama when they find themselves at the livestock show, and Drover decides to take off to visit his mother. Can Hank track down his faithful sidekick before Slim heads back to the ranch? Or is he off on a wild goose chase?
17) Come Juneteenth
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Fourteen-year-old Luli and her family face tragedy after failing to tell their slaves that President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation made them free.
18) Starfish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 53
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Drover C. Dog, faithful sidekick to Hank the Cowdog, tells the story of his life, from being the runt of the litter with dreams of being a handsome prince, to how he came to Loper and Sally May's ranch.