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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Chloe Cho is a Korean American seventh-grader who would like to get in touch with many of the aspects of her heritage, but her parents are unwilling to talk about it--then when a class assignment forces Chloe to confront them directly, they finally tell her the truth about her family, which may just be too much for one girl to handle.
The next person who compares Chloe Cho with famous violinist Abigail Yang is going to HEAR it. Chloe has just about...
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Pub. Date
2005
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Despite his reluctance and still haunted by the events of his last drive, Sam Ketchum takes on the difficult challenge of bringing the cattle from Frio Springs to the markets of Nebraska, dealing with the hardships of the trail, renegade Comanche, and rustlers along with way, but now his task is further complicated when he finds himself in the middle of a deadly Texas feud. Original.
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"Three noted Texan writers combine forces to tell the real story of the Alamo, dispelling the myths, exploring why they had their day for so long, and explaining why the ugly fight about its meaning is now coming to a head. Every nation needs its creation myth, and since Texas was a nation before it was a state, it's no surprise that its myths bite deep. There's no piece of history more important to Texans than the Battle of the Alamo, when Davy Crockett...
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Little house chapter books. Laura volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Laura Ingalls and her pioneer family encounter a variety of animals traveling through and living on the American frontier at the turn of the century.
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
In the summer of 1942, young teen Charlie Hardin is set loose in Austin, Texas, with one command, to stay out of trouble, but there are some situations he cannot ignore and he comes to understand that, no matter the cost, when danger arrives he must be brave, resolute, clever, and just a little bit crazy.
90) Shattered souls
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Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
When a Texas high school student starts hearing voices she assumes she is schizophrenic like her father, but instead she finds out that she is a "Speaker," who can communicate with the dead in order to help their troubled souls find resolution.
91) Bleeding violet
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Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
A mentally ill sixteen-year-old girl reunites with her estranged mother in an East Texas town that is haunted with doors to dimensions of the dead and protected by demon hunters called Mortmaine.
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Pub. Date
c1914, 2010
Description
Hopalong Cassidy could fan a gun every bit as well as Billy the Kid. Six rounds in three seconds was his slowest time, and not a soul in the grand state of Texas could beat him. Until he met Slim Travennes, head of the Sandy Creek Vigilante Committee. Slim was snake-fast. No man could go up against him and live. No man. Hoppy could stand or die. He had no other choice. None at all.
94) Red River ruse
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Billy Cambridge is a Texas lawyer 'round about 1887, but in his younger days, he was a Texas Ranger. Entrusted with transporting $20,000 across northern Texas, he enlists the aid of his ranch foreman, Nacho Graves. Both expect an uneventful trip but lay that thought to rest when their stage is held up by six bandits who have been very active in the area lately but who have managed to escape the law. Billy and Nacho, interested only in their own money,...
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Pub. Date
c1938.c1966.2010
Description
Panic and fear spread across the Texas Panhandle as marauding bands of Indians and cut-throat criminal gangs shed the blood of innocent sheep ranchers and cattlemen. Decent citizens cried out for law and order-and that brought Jim Hatfield to the scene. Hatfield could not have guessed to what lengths his courage would be tested as he came face to face with a huge organization of sinister killers. Alone, he must face this menacing enemy-where every...
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Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 53
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Dover, a dog, describes what his life was like before he came to live with Hank on the ranch.
Series
King of the Hill volume Season 4
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
A show about a rigid redneckish propane salesman with a good heart and wacky friends and family.