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1) Mr. Tucket
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild.
Author
Series
Tucket adventures volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Francis and two younger children lose their way in the wilderness of the Southwest, they face capture at the hands of dangerous men.
3) Woods runner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
From his 1776 Pennsylvania homestead, thirteen-year-old Samuel, who is a highly-skilled woodsman, sets out toward New York City to rescue his parents from the band of British soldiers and Indians who kidnapped them after slaughtering most of their community. Includes historical notes at the end of each chapter.
Author
Series
Tucket adventures volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Having separated from the one-armed trapper who taught him how to survive in the wilderness of the Old West, fifteen-year-old Francis gets lost and continues to have adventures involving dangerous men and a friendly mule.
Author
Series
Tucket adventures volume 4
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Francis and the two children he has adopted travel across the Old West, evade Comancheros, discover a treasure, and wind up rich beyond their wildest dreams.
Author
Series
Tucket adventures volume 5
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Francis, Lottie, and Billy experience great dangers and frightening encounters while searching for Francis Tucket's family on the Oregon frontier in the mid-1800s.
7) The quilt
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
During World War II, while his father is in Europe fighting and his mother is working in Chicago, a five-year-old boy goes to live with his grandmother in a rural Norwegian American community in Minnesota. Based on events from the author's life.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
©1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Continues the adventures of Sarny, the slave girl Nightjohn taught to read, through the aftermath of the Civil War during which time she taught other Blacks and lived a full life until age ninety-four.
9) The rifle
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
A priceless, handcrafted rifle, fired throughout the American Revolution, is passed down through the years until it fires on a fateful Christmas Eve of 1994.
10) Nightjohn
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1995, ©1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Many of the lawmen we think of as heroes were anything but; many were scoundrels and outlaws themselves. Among all those, Bass Reeves stands tall. Reeves was the most successful federal marshall in the West. Born into slavery, once freed, he served the law in Indian Territory, where a man could lose his life on another man's whim.
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