Cameron Beierle
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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"A most appealing book . . . Its genuineness and its simplicity will build up a large audience of enthusiastic readers."—San Francisco Chronicle
Ralph Moody was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Through his eyes we experience the pleasures and perils of ranching there early in the twentieth century. Auctions and roundups, family picnics, irrigation wars, tornadoes and
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Little Britches volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Little Britches becomes the "man" in his family after his father's early death, taking on the concomitant responsibilities as well as opportunities. During the summer of his twelfth year he works on a cattle ranch in the shadow of Pike's Peak, earning a dollar a day. Little Britches is tested against seasoned cowboys on the range and in the corral. He drives cattle through a dust storm, eats his weight in flapjacks, and falls in love with a blue outlaw...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Ralph Moody, just turned twenty, had only a dime in his pocket when he was put off a freight in western Nebraska. It was the Fourth of July in 1919. Three months later he owned eight teams of horses and rigs to go with them. Everyone who worked with him shared in the prosperity - the widow whose wheat crop was saved and the group of misfits who formed a first-rate harvesting crew. But sometimes fickle Mother Nature and frail human nature made sure...
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Expedition volume 6
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English
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At the end of the Civil War, Jim Parker goes back to the Indians to prepare them for the future that only he knows. As an astronaut lost in a time warp in 2008, he has befriended Major Mark Barkley of the War Department, who calls on Jim for special projects.
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English
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Billy Ray works hard all week to play even harder on Payday Saturday Night. Whiskey, women, gambling and a good fistfight are all Billy Ray thinks a man needs. That is until a keen-eyed little man faces him down with something greater than his fists or his guns. In that moment Billy's life changes forever, and he wants to share his discovery. Only how can he explain what he himself doesn't entirely understand? Saddle-up for the hard-knock ride Billy...
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Seven archangels volume 4
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English
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No one knows why Tabris, a guardian angel, killed the child he vowed to protect. The boy Sebastian got into Heaven, but the angels don't understand why Tabris isn't in Hell. Instead God's given him a second chance. Another assignment. Another guardianship. Although he struggles to help this new child, a ten-year-old girl named Elizabeth, Tabris can't escape what he did with Sebastian. Elizabeth's co-guardian doesn't trust him at all, which makes sense...
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First century Christian heroes volume 4
Publisher
Books in Motion
Pub. Date
[2020].
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English
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Aliza, the wife of a simple fisherman named Simon, is thunderstruck when her husband announces he and his business partner are quitting their jobs to follow a man known as Jesus of Nazareth. She is suddenly without income and nearly destitute! For three years Aliza sees Simon, now known as Peter, only occasionally. Her resentment mellows somewhat as she develops into a first-century entrepreneur, but she refuses to accept Jesus' message - a new...
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First century Christian heroes volume 1
Publisher
Books in Motion
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Follow Legionnaire Asher from his horrific first mission in Bethlehem through three decades, as he is changed by the amazing events of the first century, ending at an empty tomb near Jerusalem.
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English
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In Saudi Arabia, two American missionaries are targeted by the infamous religious police-Muttawa. The man is tortured and killed; his wife arrested on trumped-up charges before being deported to the United States. Compelled by the injustice of her plight, young attorney Brad Carlson files an unprecedented civil rights suit against Saudi Arabia and the ruthless head of the Muttawa. But the suit unleashes powerful forces that will stop at nothing to...
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Belgariad volume 4
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English
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A magnificent epic set against a history of seven thousand years of the struggles of Gods and Kings and men - of strange lands and events - of fate and a prophecy that must be fulfilled! "The Belgariad"--It had all begun with the theft of the Orb that had so long protected the West from the evil God Torak. Before that, Garion had been a simple farm boy. Afterward, he discovered that his aunt was really the Sorceress Polgara and his grandfather was...
13) Demon Witch
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Danger continues to lurk at Ravenscliff, as Devon March returns to face an ancient evil.
Five hundred years ago, Isobel the Apostate was burned at the stake after waging war upon her fellow sorcerers, the Order of the Nightwing. With her dying breath she vowed she would return one day, and conquer the world.
Now, Isobel has made good on her promise, and returns to modern day Ravenscliff, where the only person who can stand between her and world...
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Belgariad volume 5
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English
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On the outcome of one duel rests the fate of the world... With Garion on the throne, peace has finally come to the West. But as long as the evil God Torak still lives, he knows they will never truly be safe. As Princess Ce'Nedra leads her armies in a desperate bid to divert the Evil One's forces, Garion travels to the City of Endless Night to face Torak for the last time. But one question haunts him--can man ever destroy an immortal God?
16) Pawn of prophecy
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Belgariad volume 1
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English
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"Myths tell of the ancient wars of Gods and men, and a powerful object -- the Orb -- that ended the bloodshed. As long as it was held by the line of Riva, it would assure the peace. But a dark force has stolen the Orb, and the prophecies tell of war. Young farm boy Garion knows nothing of myth or fate. But then the mysterious Old Storyteller visits his aunt, and they embark on a sudden journey. Pursued by evil forces, with only a small band of companions...
17) Prophet
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English
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John Barrett, anchorman for "News Six at Five," has a problem. He's caught his producer skewing a story to suit her own prejudices, then lying to cover her tracks. The "accidental" death of John's father is also now in question, after the father's controversial testimonry. And a young girl has been murdered, and John is the only one who can prove it.
18) Taming Fire
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From all directions, in the darkness, a great terror approaches this world. Daven Carrickson grew up as a beggar in the filthy alleys beneath the shadows of the palace. He's the son of a known thief, disgraced and despised. His only real talent is his ability with a sword, and his only real chance at finding honor or a home is a desperate dream of joining the King's Guard. But Daven receives a new future when Master Claighan invites him to study magic...
19) The Dragonswarm
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The Kingdom of the Sarianne teeters on the brink. While its tyrant king plays out his petty vendettas, rebellion foments on the edges of his domain. Politics and power struggles gamble civilization on the tides of war. Yet war is not the greatest threat t
20) Queen of sorcery
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Belgariad volume 2
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English
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The master sorcerer Belgarath and his daughter Polgara, the arch-sorceress, were on the trail of the Orb, seeking to regain its saving power before the final disaster prophesized by the legends. With them went Garion, a simple farm boy only months before, but now the focus of the struggle. He had never believed in sorcery and wanted no part of it, yet with every league they traveled the power grew in him, forcing him to acts of wizardry he could not...