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Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Colton, son of a black mother and a white father, takes a job with the Pony Express in 1860 after his father abandons the family on their California-bound wagon train, and risks his life to deliver an important letter that may affect the growing conflict between the North and South.
82) Dakota spring
Author
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1997], c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Caroline and Jess struggle to get along with their prim grandmother, who has come to their prairie home to help take care of them while their father recovers from an accident.
83) Wrango
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When young George McJunkin leaves his home in Texas and joins a cattle drive along the Chisholm Trail, he experiences the hardships of being a Black cowboy after the Civil War.
84) Calamity Jane
Author
Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of the Wild West heroine who was transformed into a legendary figure in the public mind.
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