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1) Hardscrabble
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
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Twelve-year-old Belle Martin and her family move to Mingo, Colorado, in 1910 when the U.S. government offers 320 acres of land free to homesteaders.
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In 1860, with both parents dead, sixteen-year-old Tom, anxious to find a way to care for his sisters, begins a two-year adventure of danger and exploration when he leaves his native England to join his Uncle Harry and seek his fortune in the Rocky Mountain wilderness of Colorado.
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Horses of Half Moon Ranch volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
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After moving from the city out to the horse ranch with her family, Kirstie Scott leads a pony trek through Miner's Ridge when a sudden storm causes a landslide. Trapped alone in Dead Man's Canyon with a herd of wild horses whose leader--a proud, black stallion--has been hurt by falling rocks, she must find a way out and help the injured stallion.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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Because his father is in the Army, Oliver Jeffries has never lived in any one place for long, but he was hoping that Colorado would be different because he is the starting wide receiver on the Jackson Middle School's football team--so when he gets word that his family is moving again he is bitterly disappointed, but he has one more game and he is determined to make it a good one.
7) City of gold
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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"Determined to recover his family's mules, fifteen-year-old Owen is joined by his kid brother and Telluride's notorious marshal in pursuit of a rustler--all the way to Butch Cassidy's hideout"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
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Determined to find his nineteen-year-old uncle and best friend, Jesse, who left for Colorado to find enough gold to pay the mortgage and save the family's Iowa farm, twelve-year-old Early Whittcomb joins up with a barber, his wife, and his daughter on a wagon train heading for the gold fields near Pike's Peak in 1858.
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St. Rosetta's Academy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
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Told in two voices, Jaya Rao, an East Indian princess, and Grey Emerson, an English lord, suffer the effects of a centuries-old feud when they meet at an elite Colorado boarding school.
11) Tree of Dreams
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
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Twelve-year-old Coco Hidden has grown up in her mother's chocolate shop in Colorado, along with her friend Leo de la Cueva, but recently things have not been going well; the shop is failing, and Leo is hanging out with the other boys, and barely wants to talk to her--but when they both win a culinary contest, the two children and their mothers find themselves on a trip to the Amazon in Ecuador, where Coco hopes to find the rare ceiba tree, and where...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
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Learning about paleontology and fossil hunting under renowned scientist Dr. Iris Prez while attending summer camp in Colorado, the Aldens investigate an outbreak of strange events that local superstition attributes to a bigfoot creature roaming the valley.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
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Afraid he will always be an outsider like ex-planet Pluto, nine-year-old Oliver finally shows his extremely overprotective parents that he is capable of doing great things without their help while his class is studying the solar system.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
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In 1882, ten-year-old Emma and her family, along with other Russian Jewish immigrants, arrive in Cotopaxi, Colorado, where they face inhospitable conditions as they attempt to start an agricultural colony, and lonely Emma is comforted by the horse whose life she saved.
15) Hot spot
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
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A wildfire in Rocky Mountain National Park poses several problems for Chief Anna MacElreath and her Firestormers; not only does she have to work with a touchy career-oriented local fire chief, but a group of conservationists is determined to force her to save the area that is the habitat of the whooping crane--even if it means risking their own lives.
16) Snowboard hero
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
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Thirteen-year-old Kaleb has always looked up to his older stepbrother, Luke, in snowboarding and everything else, so when Luke is wounded in Afghanistan Kaleb is devastated--and to honor his brother he is set on competing on the difficult slopestyle course.
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Arlo Finch volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
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For Arlo Finch and the Rangers of Pine Mountain Company, summer camp is more than canoeing and hiking. It's also a chance to search for ancient forest spirits and discover mysterious messages encoded in tree bark. But when Arlo and his best friends Indra and Wu stumble upon clues about the long-lost Yellow Patrol, Arlo uncovers a stunning history that leads right back to his very own family.
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2017.
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Little Hannah Lander lives in a sod house in northeastern Colorado with her father and mother and four siblings. Hannah is noticeably toothless because of an unfortunate incident that occurred when she was a baby. Her mother had been holding Hannah in front of her on horseback when she rode smack into the clothesline in the dark, and the clothesline had ripped out Hannah’s upper front teeth. Her brothers sometimes tease her about her appearance...
19) The well's end
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Well's end novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
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Sixteen-year-old Mia Kish and her friends search for answers when a mysterious illness brings their Colorado community to its knees.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Sophie writes a letter home each of the twelve days she spends exploring the state of Colorado at Christmastime, as her cousin Zach shows her everything from a lark bunting in a blue spruce sapling to twelve skiiers gliding over snow. Includes facts about Colorado.