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Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
After a busy summer training Sprocket, the service dog she has been raising, Nicki's school year gets off to a rough start as she works on reconciling her two best friends, accepting that Sprocket will soon leave for placement with someone who needs him, and awaiting the birth of the twins her mother is expecting. Includes essay on service dogs.
Author
Publisher
Silver Whistle/Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A grandfather tells how the family's Christmas tradition of placing a carved wooden nest with a pair of geese and their babies in the large spruce tree started years ago when his parents first settled in Colorado.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1868, twelve-year-old Emma and her widowed mother move to a tiny mining town in Colorado Territory to start a newspaper, but someone is determined to scare them away.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Just as twelve-year-old Ferrell Savage is beginning to think of Mary Vittles, his life-long friend, as a potential girlfriend, a new boy at school blackmails them with a family secret--that one of Ferrell's ancestors ate one of Mary's.
6) Wild horses
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After moving from the city out to the horse ranch with her family, Kirstie Scott leads a pony trek through Miner's Ridge when a sudden storm causes a landslide. Trapped alone in Dead Man's Canyon with a herd of wild horses whose leader--a proud, black stallion--has been hurt by falling rocks, she must find a way out and help the injured stallion.
9) Deviant
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Danny Lopez reviews the path that led him from Las Vegas, Nevada, to an experimental school near Colorado Springs and then to his imminent death at the hands of a cat-killer ready for bigger prey.
10) The well's end
Author
Series
Well's end novels volume 1
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"16-year-old Mia Kish and her friends search for answers when a mysterious illness brings their Colorado community to its knees"--
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In late ninetenth-century Colorado, Elk Dress Girl, sister of Ute chief Ouray, is captured by Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors, rescued by the white "enemy," and finally returned to her home. Includes historical notes.
12) Slalom
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Sandro, having always lived in poverty with his mother in a wealthy ski resort town, finds his life transformed when the father he has never met suddenly returns and wants to be part of the family.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Here is a thing everyone wants: A miracle. Here is a thing everyone fears:What it takes to get one. Any visitor to Bicho Raro, Colorado is likely to find a landscape of dark saints, forbidden love, scientific dreams, miracle-mad owls, estranged affections, one or two orphans, and a sky full of watchful desert stars. At the heart of this place you will find the Soria family, who all have the ability to perform unusual miracles. And at the heart...
Author
Series
Twig and Turtle volume 5
Publisher
Pixel+Ink
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After helping at the laundromat, Twig decides to open her own solo business doing odd jobs in her community, but soon she finds herself in over her head, with too many commitments than she can handle on her own.
15) City of gold
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Determined to recover his family's mules, fifteen-year-old Owen is joined by his kid brother and Telluride's notorious marshal in pursuit of a rustler--all the way to Butch Cassidy's hideout"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In the Colorado Territory in 1875, orphan Margret and her older sister Libby are staying with the kind-hearted Mrs. Fredrickson when Margret finds an injured horse which she nurses back to health and wants to keep, while Libby is too mistrustful of people to think that they might possibly have found a home.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Afraid he will always be an outsider like ex-planet Pluto, nine-year-old Oliver finally shows his extremely overprotective parents that he is capable of doing great things without their help while his class is studying the solar system.
Author
Series
Arlo Finch volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Arlo Finch moves to Pine Mountain, Colorado, and joins the Rangers, he learns how to harness the wild magic seeping in from the mysterious Long Woods--a parallel realm of wonder and danger.
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"The Aldens are spending their first week of summer at Camp Quest in Colorado. The children are excited to learn about fossil hunting and paleontology from renowned scientist Dr. Iris Perez. But strange events at the camp make them wonder if the legends of a bigfoot-like creature roaming the valley might be more fact than fiction. Can the Aldens help Dr. Iris figure out who--or what--is causing such a stir?"--Amazon
Author
Series
Arlo Finch volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Something was coming. Arlo felt certain about that. For Arlo Finch and the Rangers of Pine Mountain Company, summer camp is more than canoeing and hiking. It's also a chance to search for ancient forest spirits and discover mysterious messages encoded in tree bark. But when Arlo and his best friends Indra and Wu stumble upon clues about the long-lost Yellow Patrol, Arlo uncovers a stunning history that leads right back to his very own family.
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