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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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"Ralph Moody was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. He shares the pleasures and perils of ranching out West, at the dawn of the 20th century"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Little Britches volume Book 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Fortified with Yankee ingenuity and western can-do energy, the Moody family, transplanted from New England, builds a new life on a Colorado ranch early in the twentieth century. Father has died and Little Britches shoulders the responsibilities of a man at age eleven.--From publisher description.
4) A wild West history of frontier Colorado: pioneers, gunslingers & cattle kings on the eastern plains
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Publisher
History Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
From the Gold Rush to the coming of the railroad, the mid-1800s saw prospectors, desperados and opportunists flock to Colorado. The peaceful frontier quickly transformed into dangerous, lawless territory, where Coloradoans settled their own matters, usually with pistols.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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The protagonist, Mary Emma Moody, widowed mother of six, has taken her family east in 1912 to begin a new life. Her son, Ralph, then thirteen, recalls how the Moodys survive that first bleak winter in a Massachusetts town. Money and prospects are lacking, but not so faith and resourcefulness. "Mother" in Little Britches and Man of the Family, Mary Emma emerges fully as a character in this book, and Ralph, no longer called "Little Britches," comes...
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