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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
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Leaving behind their dear friends in Beaver Creek, Elizabeth and Wynn take over an even more primitive outpost in the Canadian Northwest. Elizabeth finds herself totally isolated because of the Indian women's fear to even communicate with her. They thought they had already faced the most crushing disappointment of their lives when they saw little Sammy disappear from view in the arms of his father. Would they be able to survive the challenges ahead?...
3) Home body
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"Rupi Kaur constantly embraces growth, and in home body, she walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present, and the potential of the self. home body is a collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself - reminding readers to fill up on love, acceptance, community, family, and embrace change. Illustrated by the author, themes of nature and nurture, light and dark, rest here."--Amazon.com
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
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Marty and Clark Davis's daughter Missie and her husband had homesteaded land in the far West, many weeks' journey away by covered wagon. But with the coming of the frontier railroad the miles are suddenly bridged, making possible their long-awaited reunion. Grandparents Marty and Clark are thrilled to meet their two little grandsons for the first time. Missie plies her mother with questions about her brothers and sisters while Willie shows them around...
8) Bitten
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 20
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Journalist and werewolf Elena Michaels enjoys her normal life with her boyfriend, but when she agrees to help her old pack bring in a couple of werewolves who are attacking common criminals her feral urges become harder to resist.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
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"Elizabeth and Wynn find that their commitment to God and to each other gives their life meaning. Can their love for each other sustain them through a harsh winter, loneliness, and rigors of life without any of the conveniences they're used to?"--Provided by publisher.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
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She came from the East to teach, but can she survive the frontier? Nothing in her cultured Eastern upbringing prepared Elizabeth for a teaching position in the Canadian West. Despite the many hardships, she cares deeply for the schoolchildren, but she is determined not to open her heart to any of the local frontiersmen. Then she meets a certain member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. . .
14) Cowboy: an album
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1994.
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An introduction to cowboys, their history, their daily life, famous coyboys and cowgirls, and portrayals of cowboys in modern films.
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[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Through poetry and art, the author and illustrator enter the magical mystical world of a child's imagination. Originally written for an oratorio by composer Derek Holman and first performed in Toronto in celebration of the millennium.
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This collection of stories illuminates moments that shape a life, from a dream or a sexual act to simple twists of fate that turn a person out of his or her accustomed path and into another way of being. Set in the countryside and towns of Lake Huron, these stories about departures and beginnings, accidents, dangers, and homecomings both virtual and real, paint a portrait of how strange, dangerous, and extraordinary the ordinary life can be
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
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Norris just moved to Texas from Canada and in order to understand the traditions at his new American school he starts taking notes on his fellow classmate’s behavior. Snarky, honest and full of authentic observations about high school, this book will almost make you miss being in school, almost.
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Robinson renders a happy mixture of English village procedural and Canadian atmosphere. After failing to solve the murder of a wandering hiker near a Yorkshire village, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks flies to Toronto to question a key witness. The plot still revolves around several Yorkshire suspects, including an abusive social climber, a wealthy squire, an emotionally repressed innkeeper, and a bitter ex-husband--who all seem to have some...