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Author
Series
Little Britches volume Book 8
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In the early 1920's, cowboy and farmer, Ralph Moody finds himself with mountainous debts through the collapse of the livestock market and the dealings of a crooked partner. Ralph never surrenders, but finds a way to turn tragedy into opportunity.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
The fatherless Moody family moves from Colorado to Massachusetts in 1912, when Ralph enters his teens. There, he discovers that 'just little things that would have been all right in Colorado' now get him into trouble. He is sent to his grandfather's farm in Maine, where he finds adventures.
23) Home ranch
Author
Series
Little Britches volume Book 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twelve and still 'man of the family' Ralph talks his mother into letting him take a summer job on a Colorado cattle ranch, and this is the story of that summer. One gets every phase of the work on the home ranch, where Little Britches earns the right to be called Ralph, and treated like a responsible adult." Kirkus.
Author
Series
Little Britches volume Book 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Little Britches volume Book 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Begun in Little Britches and Man of the Family, this is the continuing saga of Ralph Moody. In 1918, young Moody and his buddy Lonnie travel through the Southwest in an old Ford named Shiftless, camp in an Arizona canyon and "shake the nickel bush" by sculpting busts of lawyers and bankers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Books in Motion
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
"In the early 1920s cowboy and dry-range farmer, Ralph Moody found himself with mountainous debts through the collapse of the livestock market, a the dealings of a crooked partner. He faces the choice of declaring bankruptcy before he turns twenty, or working off the intimidating balance against him. His fortunes seem to be turning when a flash flood takes all he owns, and he is forced to auction off his farm and animals. Ralph never surrenders,...