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1) The big game
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
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Danny Owens is dedicating his seventh-grade football season to his recently-deceased father, an NFL legend, but the pressure to succeed is magnified by his inability to read.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
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Twelve-year-old Quijana is a biracial girl, desperately trying to understand the changes that are going on in her life; her mother rarely gets home before bedtime, her father suddenly seems to be trying to get in touch with his Guatemalan roots (even though he never bothered to teach Quijana Spanish), she is about to start seventh grade in the Texas town where they live and she is worried about fitting in--and Quijana suspects that her parents are...
5) QB 1
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Jake Cullen, fourteen, lives in the shadows of his father and older brother until he becomes the starting quarterback for the high school football team and finally has his chance to shine.
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Hank the Cowdog volume 54
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Unaware that his nemesis Pete the Barncat is playing yet another prank on him, Hank the Cowdog, Head of Ranch Security, tries to save the world from "terradogtail" dinosaur birds armed with bacon-stealing laser tongs.
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
A Vietnam War refugee in Texas partners with a city boy with rodeo dreams to track down the younger brother she was separated from six years before when he was evacuated by American troops during the waning days of the Vietnam War
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Jaque Pierce was just an ordinary 17-year-old girl getting ready to start her senior year in highschool in Coldspring, Texas. When a mysterious foreign exchange student from Romania moves in across the street, Jacque and her two best friends Sally and Jen, don't realize the last two weeks of their summer were going to get a lot more interesting. From the moment Jacque sets eyes on Fane, she feels and instant connection, a pull like a moth to a flame....
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Hank the Cowdog volume 57
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
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Hank and Drover are excited when a quick nap in the back of Slim's pickup turns into a trip to town. But the excitement turns to drama when they find themselves at the livestock show, and Drover decides to take off to visit his mother. Can Hank track down his faithful sidekick before Slim heads back to the ranch? Or is he off on a wild goose chase?
10) Starfish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.
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Hank the Cowdog volume 53
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
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Drover C. Dog, faithful sidekick to Hank the Cowdog, tells the story of his life, from being the runt of the litter with dreams of being a handsome prince, to how he came to Loper and Sally May's ranch.
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Hank the Cowdog volume 51
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"The heat is on! It's summertime, and the weather on Hank's West Texas ranch is hot and dry. So dry, in fact, that everyone is on the lookout for prairie fires. So Hank bravely adds the title of Head of Fire Safety to his already impressive list of responsibilities and gets to work. But patrolling for fires is dull, and it's hard to do on an empty stomach. Despite the distraction - desperate hunger, a cruel trick at the hands of Pete the Cat...
14) Canyons
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
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Finding a skull on a camping trip in the canyons outside El Paso, Texas, Brennan becomes involved with the fate of a young Apache Indian who lived in the late 1800s.
15) Bite club
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Morganville vampires volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
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Description
College student Claire Danvers discovers that an extreme sport pitting vampire against vampire-- and sometimes vampire against human-- is being broadcast on the Internet from Morganville, Texas.
16) Last breath
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Morganville vampires volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
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When college student Claire Danvers learns that three of the vampires in Morganville have disappeared without a trace, only to discover that the last person seen with one of the missing vampires is a mysterious new resident named Magnus, she begins to suspect that Magnus is not a fellow-human.
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Calpurnia Tate volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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"In rural Texas in 1900, when a storm blows change into town in the form of a visiting veterinarian, twelve-year-old Callie discovers a life and a vocation she desperately wants. But with societal expectations as they are, she will need all her wits and courage to realize her dreams"--
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Hank the Cowdog volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
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While trying to outwit his arch enemy Pete the Barncat, Hank the Cowdog is duped into believing a worthless corncob will bring him fame and fortune.
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Hank the Cowdog volume 61
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
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"Everyone knows that bears live in the mountains-- and there are no mountains in the Texas Panhandle. So, when Slim claims to have seen a bear cross the road, no one knows what to believe. It must have been a burro. That's it, it was a donkey. But then, Deputy Kile reports that there really is a bear on the loose in Ochiltree County! With news like this, the ranch's Security Force goes on Red Alert. Will Hank be able to defend the ranch from a raging,...