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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Santiago, a young shepherd living in the hills of Andalucia, feels that there is more to life than his humble home and his flock. One day he finds the courage to follow his dreams into distant lands, each step galvanised by the knowledge that he is following the right path: his own. The people he meets along the way, the things he sees and the wisdom he learns are life-changing. With Paulo Coelho's visionary blend of spirituality, magical realism...
2) Old Ramon
Author
Publisher
Houghton
Pub. Date
1960
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A wise old shepherd teaches a young boy lessons about survival, bravery, wisdom, and friendship as he shows him how to care for a flock of sheep in the harsh Mojave Desert
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English
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Recovering from his harrowing experience in Mexico, Sheriff Walt Longmire returns to Absaroka County, Wyoming, to lick his wounds and try once again to maintain justice in a place with grudges going back generations. When an itinerant shepherd is found dead, Longmire suspects it could be a suicide. But the shepherd's connection to the Extepares, a powerful family of Basque ranchers with a history of violence, leads the sheriff into an intricate investigation...
Author
Publisher
[Stu Campbell]
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
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"He'd been a good hand on the ranches he'd worked, and while he was out on the ranches, he'd stayed out of trouble. It was when he went to town and got drunk that he got into trouble. He was sitting in his parole officer's outer office weighing out his options when he was called into the officer's office. 'Had any luck finding a job?' asked the parole officer. 'Nope,' answered the ex-con. 'What kind of work are you looking for?' 'Anything on a ranch...
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Texas A&M University Press
Language
English
Description
In The Woolly West, historian Andrew Gulliford describes the sheep industrys place in the history of Colorado and the American West. Tales of cowboys and cattlemen dominate western history-and even more so in popular culture. But in the competition for grazing lands, the sheep industry was as integral to the history of the American West as any trail drive.With vivid, elegant, and reflective prose, Gulliford explores the origins of sheep grazing in...
10) Josefina's song
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the early 1800s, when nine-year-old Josefina accompanies her father into the New Mexican mountains to check on the elderly shepherd who works for him, she proves herself a good traveling companion when her father has an accident.
13) Coyote Cry
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co
Pub. Date
[1972]
Language
English
Description
When a coyote steals one of his collie's pups to raise, a shepherd boy learns that wild creatures must follow their instincts.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
At Borough Farm, on North Devon's rugged, spectacular coast, David Kennard and his dogs are embarking on a new shepherding year. Part diary, part Herriot-like homage to the countryside and its characters, this book is a portrait of a real life. Kennard presents twelve months with his working sheepdogs as they face a never-ending series of challenges: from rescuing ewes stranded on the Atlantic cliffs to running the gauntlet of psychopathic rams and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a cozy Irish village, when their beloved shepherd, George, is found struck down by a spade, his flock of clever sheep, led by Miss Maple, the smartest sheep in Glennkill, launches its own investigation to find George's killer among the local village inhabitants.
17) The loner
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The story about a lonely boy who has no home or family. Then people befriend him, give him a name, an identity--everything he has ever longed for, but will it last?
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English
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"Yeshua of Nazareth has two sisters: Damaris, married to a wealthy merchant's son, and Pheodora, married to a simple shepherd from Bethlehem. When Pheodora's husband suffers an unexpected reversal of fortune and is thrown into debtor's prison, she returns to Nazareth, where she pins her hopes on two she-goats who should give birth to spotless white kids that would be perfect for the upcoming Yom Kippur sacrifice. In the eighteen months between the...
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