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Spirit of Appalachia volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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A young family leaves Boston for Virginia and from there join a wagon train headed west over the Appalachian mountains to Tennessee.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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You never know what will fall from the sky...
In this remarkable novel, George Ella Lyon creates characters rich and vibrant as the Kentucky landscape they call home, touching that secret place in all of us where we wait for love's transforming power...You never know what will fall from the sky...
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Spirit of Appalachia volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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New in the Bestselling SPIRIT OF APPALACHIA! The American Revolution may have ended, but life for the settlers of the land over the Appalachian Mountains was hardly settled. British attempts to drive the Americans out of the land and hostilities with the Cherokees put a tremendous strain upon the inhabitants. Nathaniel "Fox" Carter, part-Cherokee, finds himself caught in the region's increasing unrest. When he decides to explore his ancestry, he is...
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Ballad novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Laura Bruce, wife of a minister in Appalachia, experiences dangers after she is asked by the sheriff to help tend the survivors from a scene of carnage at a farm.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer's career at a huge Wall Street law firm is on the fast track -- until the recession hits and she gets downsized, furloughed, escorted out of the building. Samantha, though, is one of the "lucky" associates. She's offered an opportunity to work at a legal aid clinic for one year without pay, after which there would be a slim chance that she'd get her old job back. In a matter of days Samantha moves from Manhattan...
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Spirit of Appalachia volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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"The Tennessee frontier had brought together Hawk and Elizabeth Spencer in the harshest of times. As they struggle to survive and raise their family at the Watauga settlement, Hawk brings his son, Jacob, to live with them. But Jacob has only known the life of the city and resents his father for leaving him behind in the past. That bitter resentment only intensifies when Jacob discovers the strong bond that's already formed between his stepbrother...
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Spirit of Appalachia volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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When Joshua Spencer decides to become a lawyer like Andrew Jackson, he also begins to stray from the teachings of his parents. His childhood sweetheart, Rachel Anderson, struggles with her feelings for Joshua in light of the choices he seems to be making. Then a family friend is wrongfully accused of a crime by a vengeful Linus Carter and Joshua must decide where his true loyalties lie. Will he return to the values he was raised with and win back...
8) Icy Sparks
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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At the age of ten, an Appalachian girl develops croaks, jerks and spasms, which leads to her explusion from school. After treatment--she has Tourette's syndrome--she learns to control herself, attends college and there is a happy ending.
Rural Kentucky in the 1950s is not an easy place to grow up in, and it's especially hard for 10-year-old Icy Sparks, an orphan who lives with her grandparents. Life becomes even more difficult for Icy when the violent...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Inspired by his grandfather's last words and guided by a girl who believes they are saints, fourteen-year-old Archie sets out on a spiritual quest that takes him from southern Appalachia to the Cloisters Museum in New York City.