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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Just when twelve-year-old Summer thinks nothing else can possibly go wrong in a year of bad luck, an emergency takes her parents to Japan, leaving Summer to care for her little brother while helping her grandmother cook and do laundry for harvest workers.
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Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
203 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Katy Lambright gets permission to attend a public high school outside of her Mennonite community, but her relationships with her family and lifelong friends become strained as she struggles to find a balance between two very different worlds.
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Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 23
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn," they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers and they experience the terror of a tornado.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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After a series of suicide-killings and a deadly storm, the residents of the town of Oleander, Kansas, start acting even more strangely than would be expected. Only the five witnesses of the murders retain their sound minds, and must band together to save the town from whatever has come over it.
9) Jayhawker
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Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
c1991.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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In the early years of the Civil War, teenage Kansan farm boy Lije Tulley becomes a Jayhawker, an abolitionist raider freeing slaves from the neighboring state of Missouri, and then goes undercover there as a spy.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Eleven-year-old Millie and five other girls, snowed in at Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum in Atchison, Kansas, are on a scavenger hunt when the lights go out and Amelia's aviator goggles go missing.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Adri's, Catherine's, and Lenore's lives are intertwined but not in the way that one would think. Adri lives in 2065 Kansas, Catherine lives in 1930s Kansas, and Lenore lives in England in 1919. As Adri is preparing to go to Mars, she stays with her cousin in Kansas, where the training takes place. Upon settling in, she comes across letters written from Lenore to Beth. Through journals and, later, letters, Catherine narrates her own story of being...
13) May B: a novel
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Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
231 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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When a failed wheat crop nearly bankrupts the Betterly family, Pa pulls twelve-year-old May, who suffers from dyslexia, from school and hires her out to a couple new to the Kansas frontier.
14) Pioneer summer
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Series
Prairie skies volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
74 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
At first reluctant to move to Kansas despite his parents' enthusiasm, eight-year-old Charles has many adventures in his new home, from nearly falling through the ice on a frozen pond to fighting a prairie fire threatening their cabin.
15) Ghost town
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
167 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Spencer Honesty and his imaginary friend, an Indian called Chief Leopard Frog, improbably achieve fame and riches in the abandoned town of Paisley, Kansas, when Spencer begins taking photographs with his deceased father's ancient camera and Chief Leopard Frog has his poems published by a shady businessman in the Cayman Islands.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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When Laura Ingalls and her family leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, they head west for the open prairie skies of Kansas Territory. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the perfect spot for Pa to build them a new home. Soon they are planting and plowing, hunting wild ducks and turkeys, and gathering grass for their cows. But just when they begin to feel settled, they are caught in the middle of a dangerous...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past. Over the summer she pieces together his story. Having heard stories about Manifest, Abilene is disappointed to find that it's just a dried-up, worn-out old town. But her disappointment quickly turns to excitement when she discovers...
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Publisher
Blue Bronco Books, an imprint of The Little Press
Pub. Date
[2022].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Housemaid? What a horrible word! Not that I'd ever actually seen a housemaid, but I could picture one: a meek, aproned, pale-faced girl who never saw the sun. When her parents force her to work at grand Ashford Manor, 12-year-old Cabby Potts will do anything to escape, including playing matchmaker between her sister and the rich young lord of the manor. If it succeeds, her scheme will save her family's struggling homestead. If it fails . . . Can...
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