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1) Catch rider
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Despite her poor background and ferocious competition from more privileged girls, fourteen-year-old Sid pursues her dream of becoming a catch rider--a show rider who can ride anything--with help from her Uncle Wayne.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When her father loses her college tuition money, Lulu works with Mason, a local boy, making and selling moonshine but their growing romance may mean giving up her dream of escaping her small Virginia hometown.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Foster McFee and her mother escape from her mother's abusive boyfriend and end up in the small town of Culpepper, West Virginia, where they use their strengths and challenge themselves to build a new life, with the help of the friends they make there.
5) Seeing red
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
When twelve-year-old Frederick Red Porter's father dies in 1972, his mother wants to sell their automobile repair shop and move her two sons back to Ohio, but Red is desperate to stop the sale even if it means unearthing some dark family secrets in a Virginia rife with racial tensions.
7) Free verse
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her last family member dies in a fire, Sasha is placed in foster care but is intent on leaving her small West Virginia mining town, until she makes a new friend at school and learns how to manage her grief through poetry.
Author
Language
English
Description
Whether you're settling in for a heaping plate of banana pudding or arepas and tostones, a good meal can always bring families together. Once a year, on a Friday night, My family leaves the city And drives hours and hours . . . First my family drives through the mountains to stop at Mamaw and Papaw's house in rural West Virginia. We share blueberry jam and toast for breakfast the next morning, then munch cookies and cut bananas to make banana pudding...
11) Sooner or later
Author
Series
Heartland volume 12
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
150 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Amy realizes that the time has come to choose between helping damaged horses and training her Thoroughbred, Storm, to perform in high-level jumping competitions.
12) Shades of gray
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
152 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Will, having lost all his immediate family, reluctantly leaves his city home to live in the Virginia countryside with his aunt and the uncle he considers a traitor because he refused to take part in the war.
13) Will & whit
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Will, a creative soul struggling to come to terms with a family tragedy, crafts whimsical lamps, in part to deal with her fear of the dark, which she is forced to confront when a hurricane blows through her town at the end of a summer.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten-year-old Piper moves yet again when her father, who is a Chief Petty Officer in the Navy, gets assigned to Norfolk, Virginia, and although the move takes a bit of adjustment, she soon makes friends with the girl next door and catches up with old friends too.
15) A piece of home
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Moving with his family from Korea to West Virginia, Hee Jun struggles to adjust to his new home, an unfamiliar language, and the different appearances of his classmates before making friends and bringing a familiar flower home to his grandmother.
16) As brave as you
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Genie learns a thing or two about being brave and becoming who you are when he and his brother spend a summer away from the city with his blind grandfather in the country.
When two brothers decide to prove how brave they are, everything backfires--literally--
17) Come what may
Author
Series
Heartland volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
157 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Young Amy, who works on a Virginia rehabilitation farm for abused horses, tries to distract herself from her feelings about her estranged father by focusing on the farm's new horse, Melody--but when complications develop during the horse's pregnancy, Amy winds up feeling even worse.
18) Taking chances
Author
Series
Heartland volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
175 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Amy, continuing her mother's work at the Heartland farm for rescuing and curing abused horses, knows that her co-worker Ty is very important to her both personally and professionally, but when Ben arrives on the scene, it seems like everything starts to go wrong.
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
c2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
166 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
Español
Description
When Judy Moody gets serious about protecting the environment, her little brother Stink thinks she is overdoing it, but she manages to inspire her third grade class to undertake an award-winning, environment-saving project.
Author
Publisher
Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
801 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Katy becomes psychically linked to alien Daemon, and the pair must dodge a galaxy of enemies looking to steal Daemon's abilities while dealing with their growing feelings for one another.
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