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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past. Over the summer she pieces together his story. Having heard stories about Manifest, Abilene is disappointed to find that it's just a dried-up, worn-out old town. But her disappointment quickly turns to excitement when she discovers...
Author
Series
Millwood Hollow series volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
During the Great Depression Jeb Nubey is running from the law when he meets three abandoned children. After they pass a stormy night in a church, Jeb is mistaken for the new pastor -- a widower with three kids. Looks like more trouble for Jeb. But the chance for a steady job and three squares a day is too good to turn down.
Author
Publisher
T. Nelson Publishers
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
The Tucker and Canfield families are weathering the stock market crash just fine on their Arkansas cotton farm, but the Memphis panic and disaster of October 1, 1931 send them into a tailspin and the troubles seem to keep piling up as they try to hold on to their faith in God.
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old girl keeps a journal of her family's and friends' difficult experiences in the Texas panhandle, part of the "Dust Bowl," during the Great Depression. Includes a historical note about life in America in 1935.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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In her fictionalized journal, eleven-year-old Minnie Swift recounts how her family dealt with the difficult times during the Depression and how the arrival of an orphan from Texas changed their lives in Indianapolis just before Christmas 1932.
Language
English
Description
Against all odds, a veterinary student (Robert Pattinson) and a beautiful circus performer from a bygone era (Reese Witherspoon) meet and fall in love through their shared compassion for a special elephant. But their secret romance incurs the wrath of her dangerously volatile husband (Christoph Waltz).
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
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Texas, 1921. La Gran Guerra ha terminado y Estados Unidos parece entrar en una nueva era de optimismo y abundancia. Pero para Elsa, considerada demasiado mayor para casarse en una epoca en la que el matrimonio es la unica opcion de una mujer, el futuro es incierto. Hasta la noche en que conoce a Rafe Martinelli y decide cambiar la direccion de su vida. Con su reputacion arruinada, solo le queda una opcion respetable: casarse con un hombre al que apenas...
Author
Series
On the road to perdition volume 1
Publisher
Paradox Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
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