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The Virginian is a 1902 debut novel set in the Wild West by the American novelist Owen Wister. Describing the life of a cowboy on a cattle ranch in Wyoming, it helped establish the western novel as a literary genre. The unnamed protagonist in The Virginian, who courts a local schoolteacher and defers personal revenge while meting out justice to a cattle thief, set the tone for the rough but civilized cowboy, a prototype for scores of ensuing books,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
An everyday kid with a talent for predicting baseball pitches is caught stealing baseballs from his favorite New York Yankees player, who agrees not to press charges if the boy will help him recover from a difficult batting slump.
Author
Series
All the wrong questions volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lemony Snicket begins his apprenticeship with S. Theodora Markson of the secretive V.F.D. in the tiny dot of a town called Stain'd By The Sea, where he helps investigate the theft of a statue.
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Series
Will Tanner U.S. deputy marshal volume 4
Language
English
Description
"Hes the most notorious cattle rustler in all of Texas. His name--Jebediah Cotton--strikes fear into the hearts of every rancher in the territory. So its more than a little strange that someone would shoot Cottons youngest son in the back. Whoever did it is either a coward, a fool, or a crazy man. Whoever did it must die. Even if hes a U.S. deputy marshal named Will Tanner...So begins not one, but two of the deadliest manhunts in frontier history....
6) Nightwork
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Harry Booth started stealing at nine to keep a roof over his ailing mother's head, slipping into luxurious, empty homes at night to find items he could trade for precious cash. When his mother finally succumbed to cancer, he left Chicago--but kept up his nightwork. Wandering from the Outer Banks to Savannah to New Orleans, he dons new identities and stays careful, observant, distant. He can't afford to attract attention--or get attached. Still, he...
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Series
A Bowser and Birdie novel volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Bowser is a mutt, just adopted by eleven-year-old Birdie Gaux and her grandmother, but when they all get home to Grammy's bait and tackle shop in the bayou they discover that their prize stuffed marlin has been stolen--so Bowser decides to investigate, and things quickly become complicated and dangerous.
10) Pray for death
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Series
Will Tanner U.S. deputy marshal volume 6
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"There's serious trouble brewing in the Choctaw nation, and it goes by the name of Tiny McCoy. This small-time cattle rustler is expanding his brand by brewing batches of whiskey in the Chocktaw territory of Muddy Boggy Creek. Tiny and his partner have also turned the illegal brewery into a robber's roost for outlaws, cutthroats, and killers of every bent. Local lawman Jim Little Eagle is under attack and out-gunned. But when he sends a wire to Fort...
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Series
Nancy Drew and the clue crew volume 2
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Nancy has to find out who stole the secret recipe at the contest for new ice cream flavors.
12) Monkey trouble
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Series
Publisher
Oasis Audio
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
While spending two days touring a zoo to see the baby animals, the four Alden children, aged six to fourteen, help catch an escaped monkey, participate in a photography contest, and investigate a missing camera.
13) Conagher
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Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In this classic L'Amour adventure, a dark-eyed drifter wages a war against a murderous band of rustlers. As far as the eye could see was a vast, lonely horizon. And Evie Teale and her two children were all alone here now, alone in an untamed country where the elements, the Indians, and the thieves made it far easier to die than to live. But soon a man named Conagher would drift into her life -- and together they would have the courage to make a stand....