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Based on true events, this compelling survival story by award-winning novelist Jane Kirkpatrick is full of grit and endurance. Beset by storms, bad timing, and desperate decisions, 8 women, 17 children, and one man must outlast winter in the middle of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1844.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Con Vallian knew the best way to stay out of trouble was to mind his own business. Then he stopped for a cup of coffee at a stranger's campfire and found himself guiding a family of greenhorns across the prairie--fighting a pack of rustlers on one hand and some mighty unpredictable Indians on the other.
5) Koda
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Horse diaries volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Traveling with his owners from Missouri to Oregon in 1848, Koda, an energetic two-year-old quarter horse, finds the long journey increasingly tedious and tiring until his young owner goes missing on the trail and he must use all his skills to find her.
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Joshua's Oregon Trail Diary volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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In 1848, nine-year-old Joshua Martin McCullough writes a journal of his family's journey from Missouri to Oregon in a covered wagon. Includes a historical note about westward migration.
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From the dark, dangerous, and deadly pits of the Scottish coal mines, to the crowded and bustling streets of Edinburgh, to the perilous voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, to the long and arduous trek across the plains to a "promised land," this is the triumphant story of the Hogge and Kenny families and their faith and determination to join the Scottish Saints in Zion.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Lee Westfall, a young woman with the magical ability to sense the presence of gold, must flee her home to avoid people who would abuse her powers, so when her best friend Jefferson heads out across Gold Rush-era America to stake his claim, she disguises herself as a boy and sets out on her own dangerous journey.
11) Bound for Oregon
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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A fictionalized account of the journey made by nine-year-old Mary Ellen Todd and her family from their home in Arkansas westward over the Oregon Trail in 1852.
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