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Californians volume 2
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For five years handsome Jeff Taylor had wanted to apologize to Bobbie Bradford in person. But she had left town the day after the humiliating episode at the picnic and never returned. Jeff was older now. He had grown in his faith and as a man. Still the news that Bobbie was returning to Santa Rosa while considering Cleve Ramsey's proposal of marriage came as a shock. Will their friendship be restored after heartbreaking betrayal?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In 1849, a twelve-year-old girl who calls herself Lucy is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a small California mining town, where Lucy helps run a rough boarding house and looks for comfort in books while trying to find a way to get "home."
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New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers returns to the California frontier in this sweeping, romantic tale of a displaced New England suffragette, a former Union soldier disinherited by his Southern family, and the town they join forces to save. 1875. When Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas, falling in love is the farthest thing from her mind. Banished from Boston by her wealthy stepfather,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
In 1881, the scrappy, rough-and-tumble baseball team in a California mining town enlists the help of a quick-witted twelve-year-old orphan and the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid to win a big game against the National League Champion Chicago White Stockings. Prequel to: The boy who saved baseball.
8) In America
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Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 23
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Description
Story of the renowed Polish actress Maryna Zalenska and her search for self-tranformation the fate of idealism, and the old and new worlds on the cusp of modernity.
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Series
Journals of Corrie Belle Hollister volume 2
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
After Corrie's mother's death, her father finds a new wife through a mail-order-bride agency.
10) Boom town
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After her family moves to California where her father goes to work in the gold fields, Amanda decides to make her own fortune baking pies and she encourages others to provide the necessary services--from a general store to a school--that enables her town to prosper.
11) Colorado!
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Series
Wagons West. Main series volume 7
Description
Gold is found in Central City, and the frontier town of Denver becomes the magnet for hucksters, hustlers, and many of the friends from the wagon train.
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Series
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In the "wild west" of an 1880s California gold-mining town, Angeline investigates the supposed murder of her father, a famous criminal lawyer, who she and her mother are certain is still alive. Includes historical notes and instructions for making a mask from muslin.
Author
Series
Journals of Corrie Belle Hollister volume 3
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
17) Penny
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 16
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Penny, a blue-eyed palomino paint mare, narrates her experiences with her owner, Buckeye Jack, and Jack's grandson, Jesse, during the 1850s Northern California gold rush.