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Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"As the Red Army closes in on the Third Reich, a German colonel sends an American intelligence officer an unusual report about a POW camp soon to be overrun by the Soviets. Locked up, the report says, are over a thousand horses, including the entire herd of white Lipizzaners from Vienna's Spanish Riding School, as well as Europe's finest Arabian stallions--stolen to create an equine "master race." The horses are worth millions and, if the starving...
64) Dead on the vine
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Charlotte Finn never wanted to inherit the family's produce farm--much less plow a heap of money into it. Her plan is to hammer a great big FOR SALE sign into the farm's fallow furrows--but Charlotte's sunny hopes of a quick sale succumb to a killing frost when she finds a dead body entwined supine in the tomato vines. The poor man, it seems, was run through...with a pitchfork? Now, Charlotte is stuck with running the farm in the midst of a murder...
65) A new friend
Author
Series
Tales of Sasha volume 3
Publisher
Little Bee Books, a division of Bonnier Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sasha and her better-than-best friend Wyatt have discovered Crystal Cove, the magical land where other flying horses live! - Cover, p.4.
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode toward the banks of the Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where 3,000 Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors would soon be forever linked throughout history: Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux, and General George Armstrong Custer. Both were men of aggression and supreme courage. Both became leaders in their societies at very...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"With photographs and stunning illustrations from acclaimed author-artist S.D. Nelson, this thrilling double biography juxtaposes the lives of two enemies whose conflict changed American history: Crazy Horse and George Custer In 1876, Lakota chief Crazy Horse helped lead his people s resistance against the white man s invasion of the northern Great Plains. One of the leaders of the US military forces was Army Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. The...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Investigates the enigmatic Native American figure, assessing critical battles attributed to his leadership within the context of the Great Sioux Wars, exploring the relationships between the Lakota Sioux and other tribes, and analyzing the subjugation of North Plains Native Americans.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The Compton Cowboys are a group who grew up in the city where Kendrick Lamar and Serena Williams were raised; a city portrayed in the media as ground zero for gang violence. But in 1988, with the creation of the Compton Junior Posse, a youth program set on a horse ranch in the middle of Compton, these men and women found a safe space. In this young readers' edition, kids will witness how the Cowboys' lives were shaped by harsh realities. The Cowboys...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"9 March 1876 My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil with my twin sister, Susie. We have nothing left, less than nothing. The village of our People has been destroyed. Empty of human feeling, half-dead ourselves, all that remains of us intact are hearts turned to stone. We curse the U.S. government, we curse the Army, we curse the savagery of mankind, white and Indian alike. We curse God in his heaven. Do not underestimate the power of...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to create a life, to find a home. In a card game with a white Indian named Featherstone, Will wins a mysterious girl named Claire. As Will's destiny intertwines with the fate of the Cherokee Indians,...
73) Mooncakes
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Language
English
Formats
Description
One fateful night, teen witch Nova Huang follows reports of a white wolf into the woods and discovers her childhood crush werewolf Tam Lang, battling a horse-demon. Now, against the background of a slowly rekindling romance, Tam and Nova must investigate the dark supernatural forces eager to claim wolf magic for evil.
74) Snowy farm
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text portray a family living on a farm with a snowy white house and barn, bundled-up horses and hens, and all they can possibly need.
75) Geronimo
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Ice Cube Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Guess who's coming to dinner? It was a steamy, late-summer day when newlyweds Lizzie and George Dell pulled up their two covered wagons at the site where they would live as cattle ranchers for the next twelve years. Lizzie was twenty years old. She was exhausted, hungry, thirsty, sweaty, AND six months pregnant. Her skin was tanned like leather and her hands were calloused from driving George's team of horses four months while he drove the oxen-pulled...
78) The kid: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A new novel from Ron Hansen, the award-winning author of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, about an iconic American criminal of the old West: legendary outlaw, Billy the Kid. Born Henry McCarty, Billy the Kid was a diminutive, charming, blond-haired young man who, growing up in New York, Kansas, and later New Mexico, demonstrated a precocious dexterity at firing six-shooters with either hand--a skill that both got him into...
79) About my mother: true stories of a horse-crazy daughter and her baseball-obsessed mother : a memoir
Author
Publisher
Forefront Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Peggy Rowe's story of growing up as the daughter of Thelma Knobel is filled with warmth and humor. But there's a Thelma in everyone's life. She's the person taking charge, the one who knows instinctively how things should be. Growing up, Peggy saw her mother as a benevolent, loving dictator. When major league baseball came to town in the early 1950s and turned sophisticated Thelma into a crazed Baltimore Orioles groupie, nobody was more surprised...
Author
Publisher
Poppy, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Mini plans a magnificent Indian wedding--from their deceased mother's jewelry to a white wedding horse--for her older sister Vinnie, a medical resident, but a hurricane threatens to destroy it all.
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