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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a spirited boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century, as he tries a new method for curing warts, witnesses a murder, runs away to an island and pretends to be a pirate, watches his own funeral, and falls for the new girl in the neighborhood.
2) Cottonmouth
Author
Series
Guns of Samuel Pritchard volume 2
Language
English
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Description
"A legendary gunfighter can never outrun the ghosts of his past. But he can outshoot them. Acclaimed author Sean Lynch's epic saga of Samuel Pritchard continues-with a venegance. 1874. After losing his innocence in the Civil War and risking his life as a Texas Ranger, Samuel Pritchard has finally settled into a peaceful life in his hometown of Atherton, Missouri. As marshall, he hopes to put his bloody past behind him. To see his sister marry his...
3) Death rattle
Author
Series
Guns of Samuel Pritchard volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1863, a teenaged boy fled his home in Atherton, Missouri, to escape the power-hungry men who murdered his father and stole his family's land. He joined the Confederacy under an assumed name and led guerilla raids in the Civil War. Then came a decade as a Texas Ranger. Now, after ten blood-soaked years, he is finally coming home and finally using his real name and finally getting revenge against the cold-hearted devils who destroyed his family and...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a diphtheria outbreak forces twelve-year-old Cissy to leave her Oklahoma hometown in the 1890s, she and her two classmates embark on a wild adventure down the Missouri River with a team of traveling actors who are living on a dilapidated paddle steamer.
Author
Series
Guns of Samuel Pritchard volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Gunfighting legend Sam Pritchard tracks down a notorious train saboteur--and nearly goes off the rails--in this fast-paced Western adventure from acclaimed author Sean Lynch" --Amazon.com.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1860, eleven-year-old Becky Thatcher, new to St. Petersburg, Missouri, joins the boys at school in a bet to steal from the Widow Douglas in hopes of meeting a promise to have adventures that she made her brother, Jon, before he died.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Missouri in 1863, twelve-year-old Juliet Bradshaw learns to rely on herself and her brother, a captain with Quantrill's Raiders, as she sees her family home burned, is imprisoned by Yankees, and then kidnapped by a blood-crazed Confederate soldier.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1849, Zeb's parents ship him off to St. Louis to become an apprentice tanner, but he rebels, casting his lot with a cheating riverboat gambler, while a slave and an Indian medicine man try to get Zeb back on the right path.
Author
Series
Guns of Samuel Pritchard volume 4
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"DEMENTED. DERANGED. DERAILED. 1875. The escalating rivalry between the two major railroad companies takes a dangerous - and deadly - turn when a train is deliberately derailed. Many are killed. More are injured. And Marshal Samuel Pritchard's longtime friend is crippled for life. The mastermind behind the train wreck claims to be the infamous Civil War criminal Jem Rupe, aka "The Trainwrecker of Platte Bridge." There's just one problem: Rupe has...
Author
Series
Adventures in time - 1849 volume 2
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After being hailed as heroes again for claiming to have caught a Bigfoot-type monster, Tom, Huck, Becky, Jim, and twenty-first-century time traveler Zane find there may be a real monster at large.
Author
Publisher
Five Star Publishing, a part of Cengage Learning, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When modern-day thirteen-year-old Zane wakes from a coma in 1849 Missouri, his plans for adventure in Indian Territory with Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and Jim are halted by the kidnapping of Becky Thatcher.
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