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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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This is the story of a young farm boy and how he trains his two coon hounds to achieve fame for their coon hunting and trapping.
The story of a young boy's love for two hunting dogs and his coming of age in Oklahoma in the 1930's.
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c2010.
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Seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails to find him, she and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions, and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth.
6) The Ozarks
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Text and illustrations describe the geography, points of interest, wildlife and vegetation of the wilderness area of the Ozark Mountains in Missouri and Arkansas.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
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When Ree Dolly's father skips bail, the 16-year-old knows if he doesn't show up to answer the drug charges against him, her family will lose their home. Her goal had been to leave her messy life of poverty and join the army, but first she must find her father, teach her little brothers to fend for themselves, and escape a downward spiral of misery.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
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Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. The narrator is a farm boy name Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted. The Chandlers farm eighty acres that they rent, not own, and when the cotton is ready they hire a truck-load of Mexicans and a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it. For six weeks...
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Ozark Mountain trilogy volume 1
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"Her sister couldn't be alive... could she? The little girl she spotted outside a store in Foggy Ridge had to be Riley Jo, her long-lost sister. Abby Cummings is certain. Almost. But her family has their hopes dashed before and quickly dismisses the idea. After all, her father and sister have been missing for five years, and are presumed dead. Abby refuses to ignore her intuition. She had her best friend, Jay, team up to track down the child in...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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Richard Weatherford is a successful small-town preacher in the Arkansas Ozarks. He's a proud husband and father of five, and has worked hard to grow his loyal flock with strong sermons and smart community outreach. But while Weatherford is a man of influence and power--including a big force in local politics--he's also a man with secrets. In the lead up to the 2016 presidential election, Weatherford's world is threatened when he's blackmailed by a...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
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"The Dane family's roots tangle deep in the Ozark Mountain town of Henbane, but that doesn't keep sixteen-year-old Lucy Dane from being treated like an outsider. Folks still whisper about her mother, a bewitching young stranger who inspired local myths when she vanished years ago. When one of Lucy's few friends, slow-minded Cheri, is found murdered, Lucy feels haunted by the two lost girls--the mother she never knew and the friend she couldn't protect....
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A continuation of the classic novel, a story as magical as the original. Billy Coleman returns from World War II embittered by his experience; but Grandpa, anticipating Billy's state of mind, has a therapeutic gift waiting for him: a pair of Redbone hound puppies-- just like the ones he had as a boy.
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New Americana volume 3
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Allison felt like she'd stepped into a fairy tale when she married widower Burke Caldwell. Wealthy, powerful, and breathtakingly handsome, Burke is the husband of her wildest dreams. But after less than a year of marriage, he's become distant, almost a stranger. His friends see Allison as little more than a trophy wife, and his only daughter regards her as the enemy. With everyone so devoted to the memory of Burke's first wife, Kate, how can Allison...
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Cold River novels volume 2
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The Sisters Hemingway: they couldn’t be more different…or more alike. The Hemingway Sisters of Cold River, Missouri are local legends. Raised by a mother obsessed with Ernest Hemingway, they were named after the author’s four wives—Hadley, Pfeiffer, Martha, and Mary. The sisters couldn’t be more different—or more alike. Now they’re back in town, reunited to repair their fractured relationships. Hadley is the poised, polished wife of...
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Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
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Cheney receives a letter from a friend pleading that she come to a remote spot in the Ozark Mountains. The friend is having a baby, and there are no doctors available in the primitive wilderness. Though she is warned about the mountain folks, Cheney feels compelled to go and provide medical care to her friend and the community.
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Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the mother of three young boys, works as the maid for a prominent citizen and his family in West Table, Missouri. Her husband is mostly absent, and in 1929, her scandalous, beloved younger sister is one of the forty-two killed in an explosion at the local dance hall. Who is to blame? Mobsters from St. Louis? The embittered local Gypsies? The preacher who railed against the loose morals of the waltzing couples? Or could it have...
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