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Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sadie promises that she will always be Wilma's best friend when their families leaves drought-stricken Missouri in 1933, but once in Texas, Sadie learns that she must try to make a new home--and new friends, too.
Author
Publisher
Maverick Books, Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Nobody on the ranch has seen a drought like the one this summer, ponds have dried up, the creek is down, and the cows are kicking up dust. Then there is a prairie fire. There is a desperate need for rain, and Pete the Barncat is trying to ruin Loper's birthday.
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A strange, mystical place allows Deborah and Phineas to see themselves and others with new eyes. When Deborah Lantz arrives in Bee County, Texas, she expects to find a great oasis of citrus groves and olive trees. Instead, she finds a tiny Amish district struggling to make ends meet on a barren, drought-stricken land. Deborah longs to go home to the lush, green countryside of Tennessee, but she wants her mother, a widow with six children, to be happy...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset
Pub. Date
c1931
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Pearl S. Buck's epic Pulitzer prize-winning novel of a China that was now in a contemporary classics edition. Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived there," wrote Pearl Buck. In the Good Earth she presents a graphic view of a China when the...