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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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The Oregon Trail marked one of the major paths to the West. Readers learn why people embarked on this arduous journey, what life was like traveling along the trail, and the kinds of hardships faced along the way. Chapters trace the history of the Great Migration of 1843, the trail's affect on settlement patterns, and the influence migration patterns had on Oregon statehood.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Thousands of American settlers endured the long trip of more than 2,000 miles between Missouri and Oregon in the mid-1800s. Would you rather run out of food supplies or spare wagon parts? Would you ford the river and get across faster but risk your wagon overturning? It's your turn to pick this or that!
5) Oregon Trail
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"Would you have survived traveling the Oregon Trail? Make decisions and tally your score to find out. Written at a lower reading level with considerate text, these high maturity books are sure to grab struggling readers as they engage and play along. Also includes a table of contents, glossary, index, author biography, sidebars, educational matter, and activities"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
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"This book relays the factual details of the Oregon Trail and the United States' westward expansion in the 1800s. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of a pioneer, a Native American in a territory crossed by the trail, and a U.S. soldier at a government outpost."--Publisher's web site.
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"Life on a wagon train was tough. Travelers wore through their shoes from so much walking. They left behind belongings along the trail when they could no longer carry them. Many didn't make it to their destination. This book engages readers with a familiar historical time period through surprising facts as was as curriculum-supporting social studies information. Historical images correlate with the main content, aiding in comprehension and providing...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Charts the journey of those who followed the Oregon Trail in the first half of the nineteenth century, describes the obstacles and dangers they encountered, and discusses the Trail's eventual decline with the introduction of the cross-country railroad.
11) The Oregon Trail
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
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This book describes the wagon route that settlers took to Oregon Territory and the dangers of traveling west.
14) The Oregon Trail
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Tells the story of the legendary trail, the mountain men who blazed the way, and the missionaries who followed.
15) Wagon train
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Follows a wagon trail to California in 1848 as hundreds of pioneers endure great hardships while traveling 2,000 miles of wilderness.
17) The Donner Party
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c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes the journey of the ill-fated Donner Party, ninety pioneers who became stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846-47.
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Thousands of American families, along with immigrants from Europe and elsewhere, headed west on the Overland Trail in the mid-nineteenth century toward California, Oregon and Washington. Among these pioneers, about half were young people eighteen and under whose stories appear here.