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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Mitch, spending the summer with his grandparents at Bird Lake after his parents' separation, becomes friends with ten-year-old Spencer, who has returned with his family to the lake where his little brother drowned years earlier, and as the boys spend time together and their friendship grows, each of them begins to heal.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her mother begins treatment for breast cancer and her parents must sell part of the orchard and send her to public school.
13) Drowning Ruth
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Unable to deal with her problems, Amanda Starkey flees to her sister's farm, but when she her sister drowns in a mysterious accident, Amanda is forced to take charge of her young niece, and she soon realizes that she has not left her problems behind, she has merely brought them with her.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
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A tale reminiscent of "Hamlet" that also celebrates the alliance between humans and dogs follows speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is responsible for his father's death.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Beware! At first, Charli is excited about the Crandall family's newest endeavor--fixing up the town's old mansion and turn it into a bed-and-breakfast. She even volunteers to help. Then strange things begin to happen. Charli hears someone singing--but no one is there. She sees the shadow of a rocking cradle--but there is no cradle. And then she hears a baby crying, and crying. " . " . " . Something terrible happened in the old house many years ago....
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