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1) Jingo Django
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English
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Jingo Hawks is out of luck when Mrs. Daggatt from the orphan house hires him out as a chimney sweep to the awful General Dirty-Face Scurlock. But it's gypsy luck that puts Jingo into the right chimney and then into the care of the mysterious Mr. Peacock, who claims to know Jingo's scoundrel father. Together they set out on a treasure hunt for buried gold. But, they are not alone. Those nasty gold diggers Mrs. Daggatt and General Scurlock are hot on...
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California Gold Rush novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Gold! That's the lure that drew men by the thousands in 1849 to make the dangerous trip to California. It's what young Jack Flagg of Boston and his unflappable butler Praisworthy are after as well. But can two such unlikely greenhorns really survive a harrowing sea voyage, bandits, and crazed miners -- not to mention a showdown with the dreaded Mountain Ox? It seems impossible, but in Gold Rush California the impossible was happening everyday.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Welcome to Humbug Mountain. Little did Wiley, the son of a traveling newspaperman, imagine that the search for his grandfather would lead him into the hands of those nasty villains of the West-Shagnasty John and the Fool Killer. Using their newspaper, The Humbug Mountain Hoorah, Wiley and his sister and mother go about outwitting the outlaws in their scheme to ambush Grandfather's new boat and its cargo of gold.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Mark Twain was born fully grown, with a cheap cigar clamped between his teeth. So begins Sid Fleischman's ramble-scramble biography of the great American author and wit, who started life in a Missouri village as a barefoot boy named Samuel Clemens. Abandoning a career as a young steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River, Sam took a bumpy stagecoach to the far West. In the gold and silver fields, he expected to get rich quick. Instead, he got poor fast,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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A struggling American ventriloquist in post-World War II Europe is possessed by the mischievous spirit of a young Jewish boy killed in the Holocaust. Author's note details the murder of over one million children by the Nazis during the 1930s and 1940s.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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After their archaeologist mother fails to return from Mexico and they discover that someone is stalking their Albuquerque house, twelve-year-old Kevin and his opera-singing older sister flee to Venice, California, where they hope that new identities will keep them safe.
10) McBroom's Ear
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Language
English
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The war is on when the grasshoppers attack Josh McBroom's fabulous one-acre farm and prize ear of corn.
11) Jim Ugly
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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The adventures of twelve-year-old Jake and Jim Ugly, his father's part mongrel, part-wolf dog, as they travel through the Old West trying to find out what really happened to Jake's actor father.
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Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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When his older sister disappears, twelve-year-old Buddy Stebbins follows her back in time and finds himself aboard a seventeenth-century pirate ship captained by a distant relative.
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Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
Touch enlists the help of The Great Chaffalo, a ghostly magician, to thwart his great-uncle's plans to put Touch into the orphan house and swindle The Red Raven Inn away from Miss Sally.