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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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In Jubal SackettJubal Sackett’s urge to explore drove him westward, and when a Natchez priest asks him to undertake a nearly impossible quest, Sackett ventures into the endless grassy plains the Indians call the Far Seeing Lands. He seeks a Natchez exploration party and its leader, Itchakomi. It is she who will rule her people when their aging chief dies, but first she must vanquish her rival, the arrogant warrior Kapata. Sackett’s quest will...
2) Sackett
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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William Tell Sackett had followed a different path from his younger brothers, but his name, like theirs, was spoken with respect and just a little fear. Where Orrin had brought law and order from New Mexico to the plains of Montana, backed up by the gunfighting talents of his brother Tye, Tell Sackett’s destiny drew him to Texas after he had to kill a man. There, in the high, lonesome country, he came upon a vein of pure gold. All he’d...
3) Dark Canyon
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
Description
When Gaylord Riley walked away from the Coburn gang, he had money and a dream. He worked hard and built a cabin, gathered a herd of cattle, and fell in love with Marie Shattuck.
But when he is confronted with false accusations of rustling and murder, Riley is forced to defend his new law-abiding way of life. Outnumbered and facing a lynching party, Riley is surprised when his old friends return to lend him a hand. But how can they help him and...
But when he is confronted with false accusations of rustling and murder, Riley is forced to defend his new law-abiding way of life. Outnumbered and facing a lynching party, Riley is surprised when his old friends return to lend him a hand. But how can they help him and...
5) Tucker
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“If a man won’t fight for what is rightly his, then he ain’t much account.” With this challenge from his dying father, young Shell Tucker rode out after three men who had stolen the twenty thousand dollars his father was carrying. Two of the men he hunted, Doc Sites and Kid Reese, were his friends. Dreaming of adventure, Tucker had wanted to join their gang. But now, with his father gone and the people back home desperately in need of the...
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Sacketts volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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In The Sackett Brand Tell Sackett and his bride, Ange, came to Arizona to build a home and start a family. But on Black Mesa, something goes terribly wrong. Tell is ambushed and badly injured. When he finally manages to drag himself back to where he left Ange, she is gone. Desperate, cold, hungry, and with nothing to defend himself, Tell is stalked like a wounded animal. While he hides from his attackers, his rage and frustration mount as he tries...
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Considine and Pete Runyon had once been friends, back in the days when both were cowhands. But when Runyon married the woman Considine loved, the two parted ways. Runyon settled down and became a sheriff. Considine took up robbing banks. Now Considine is planning a raid on the bank at Obaro, a plan that will pit him against Runyon . . . and lead to riches or suicide. The one thing he never counted on was meeting a strong, beautiful woman and her stubborn...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After discovering six gold Roman coins buried in the mud of the Devil’s Dyke, Barnabas Sackett enthusiastically invests in goods that he will offer for trade in America. But Sackett has a powerful enemy: Rupert Genester, nephew of an earl, wants him dead. A battlefield promise made to Sackett’s father threatens Genester’s inheritance. So on the eve of his departure for America, Sackett is attacked and thrown into the hold of a pirate...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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In Treasure Mountain Orrin and Tell Sackett had come to exotic New Orleans looking for answers to their father’s disappearance twenty years before. To uncover the truth, the brothers enlisted the aid of a trailwise Gypsy and a mysterious voodoo priest as they sought to re-create their father’s last trek. But Louisiana is a dangerous land, and with one misstep the brothers could disappear in the bayous before they even set foot on the trail—a...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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In Ride the Dark Trail, Logan Sackett is wild and rootless, riding west in search of easy living. Then he meets Emily Talon, a fiery old widow who is even wilder than he is. Tall and lean, Em is determined to defend herself against the jealous locals who are trying to take her home. Logan doesn’t want to get involved—until he finds out that Em was born a Sackett. Em is bucking overwhelming odds, but Logan won’t let her stand alone. For even...
11) Lando
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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In Lando For six long years Orlando Sackett survived the horrors of a brutal Mexican prison. He survived by using his skills as a boxer and by making three vows. The first was to exact revenge on the hired killers who framed him. The second was to return to his father. And the third was to find Gin Locklear. But the world has changed a lot since Lando left it. His father is missing. The woman he loves is married. And the killers want him dead. Hardened...
12) Kid Rodelo
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English
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Joe Harbin hadn't killed a man for a fortune in gold just to sit in prison and let Rodelo collect it. But when he and his men break out and head for the stash, they end up with a pair of unwelcome partners: Rodelo and a beautiful woman with a hidden past. To get fifty thousand dollars in gold across fifty miles of desert, the desperate band quickly learns how much they need each other-—and how deep their greed and suspicion can run. ...
13) The high graders
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
150 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When a peaceful man is killed in a gunfight, Mike Shevlin journeys to the booming gold town of Rafter to learn the truth, but his quest for vengeance threatens to bring him to the same fate.
14) Ride the river
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Alone in the big city, a fierce young frontierswoman must outsmart a dangerous con man before she can stake her claim to the family fortune. Sixteen-year-old Echo Sackett has never been far from her Tennessee home—until she makes the long trek to Philadelphia to collect her inheritance. In the wilderness Echo can take care of herself as well as any man, but she never imagined the challenge that awaits: a crooked city lawyer who intends to take...
16) Flint
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1960
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A soft-spoken, quick-drawing sharpshooter returns to his home in the badlands of the Southwest and discovers that his enemies have hired a gunman to kill him.
17) Crossfire trail
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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World adventurer Rafe Caradec promises a dying rancher that he will keep the powerful locals from taking over his Wyoming ranch
18) Taggart
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1971
Physical Desc
153 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Adam Stark had found gold. In the confusion of the mesas and canyons near Rockinstraw Mountain, Stark, his wife, Consuelo, and his sister, Miriam, were quietly working a rich vein while keeping their presence a secret from raiding Apaches. Worried that his wife might leave him, Stark wanted to make enough money to take her to San Francisco, where she could enjoy the style of life she craved. But when Taggart, a stranger on the run from a vicious...
19) Mojave Crossing
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Tell Sackett's plans to sell the thirty pounds of gold he carries in his saddlebags for a large profit in Los Angeles appear threatened after he meets a mysterious dark-haired woman at a Colorado River ferry crossing
20) Bendigo Shafter
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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At what point does a group of strangers become a community? When young Bendigo Shafter and a ragtag bunch of travelers settle in the rugged Wyoming mountains, they quickly come to depend on a toughness and wisdom many of them never knew they possessed. Led by the beautiful and resourceful widow Ruth Macken, the settlers battle harsh winters, renegade opportunists, and the destructive lure of gold. Through these brutally demanding experiences, young...
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