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OKLAHOMA
_____063982  Antle, Nancy  PLAYING SOLITAIRE  $16.99 Pub. Yr: 2000 Age Range: 11 – 
16  Living with her grandfather in a small Oklahoma town, fourteen-year-old Ellie 
is in constant fear that she will be approached by her father, who is running from 
the police.
_____ 098990  Beard, Darleen Bailey  BABBS SWITCH STORY  $16.30 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age 
Range: 10 – 14 AR RL: 3.40  In 1924, twelve-year-old Ruthie finds her life in a 
small Oklahoma town complicated by the behavior of her older sister Daphne, an 
object of ridicule and dislike because of her limited mental abilities.
_____ 297410  Durbin, William  JOURNAL OF C.J. JACKSON: A DUST BOWL MIGRANT  $12.77 
 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range 9 – 14 AR RL: 5.70  Thirteen-year-old C.J. records in a 
journal the conditions of the Dust Bowl that cause his family to leave Oklahoma and 
make the journey to California.
_____ 405158  Grove, Vicki  STARPLACE  $17.69 Pub. Yr: 1999 Age Range: 10 – 16 AR 
RL: 6.00  Thirteen-year-old Frannie learns hard lessons about prejudice and 
segregation when she becomes friends with a young black girl who moves into her 
small Oklahoma town in 1961.
_____ 441509  Hesse, Karen  OUT OF THE DUST  $16.97 Pub. Yr: 1997 Age Range: 9 – 12 
AR RL: 5.30 In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships 
of living on her family’s wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the 
Depression.
_____ 618751  McCaughrean, Geraldine  STOP THE TRAIN!: A NOVEL  $16.99 Pub. Yr: 
2003 Age Range: 10 – 14 AR RL: 6.40  Despite the opposition of the owner of the Red 
Rock Railroad in 1893, the new settlers of Florence, Oklahoma, are determined to 
build a real town.
_____ 666249  Myers, Anna  TULSA BURNING  $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 8 – 12 AR 
RL: 4.40  In 1921, fifteen-year-old Noble Chase hates the sheriff of Wekiwa, 
Oklahoma, and is more than willing to cross him to help his best friend, a black 
man, who is injured during race riots in nearby Tulsa.
_____ 711277  Peterson, Jeanne Whitehouse  DON’T FORGET WINONA  $15.59 Pub. Yr: 
2004 Age Range: 4 – 8 AR RL: 2.80  A young girl describes her family’s experiences 
when a drought forces them to make their way on Route 66 from Oklahoma to 
California.
_____ 740747  Rawls, Wilson  SUMMER OF THE MONKEYS  $10.05 Pub. Yr: 1976 Age Range: 
10 – 12 AR RL: 4.80  Set in rural Oklahoma around the turn of the century, a 
fourteen-year-old boy discovers a tree full of monkeys and receives an explanation 
from his grandpa.
_____ 829130  Smith, Cynthia Leitich  JINGLE DANCER  $16.29 Pub. Yr: 2000 Age 
Range: 4 – 10 AR RL: 3.70  Jenna, a member of the Muscogee Nation, borrows jingles 
from the dresses of friends so that she can perform the jingle dance.
_____ 879505  Thomas, Joyce Carol  I HAVE HEARD OF A LAND  $10.05 Pub. Yr: 1998 Age 
Range: 7 – 11 AR RL: 3.10  Describes the experiences of an African-American pioneer 
woman who stakes a claim for free land in the Oklahoma Territory.
_____ 915688  Waldman, Neil  THEY CAME FROM THE BRONX: HOW THE BUFFALO WERE SAVED 
FROM EXTINCTION  $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Level: 7 – 11 AR RL: 5.80  A Comanche 
grandmother and her grandson wait for the arrival of a herd of buffalo in this 
story based on the efforts of the American Bison Society to reintroduce bison to 
Oklahoma.
_____ 916763  Wallace, Bill  COYOTE AUTUMN  $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2000 Age Range: 8 – 12 
AR RL: 4.10    After moving to the country, thirteen-year-old Brad, who has always 
wanted a dog, adopts a motherless coyote.

OREGON
_____ 171823  Bunting, Eve  SUMMER OF RILEY  $20.30 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 8 – 12 
AR RL: 3.80  Shortly after he gets the perfect dog, Riley, eleven-year-old William 
must fight for his dog’s life after Riley is taken away because he chases and 
injures an elderly neighbor’s old horse.
_____ 220553  Cleary, Beverly  EMILY’S RUNAWAY IMAGINATION  $20.30 Pub. Yr: 1961 
Age Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 6.10  Emily is a well-intentioned child but her 
imagination leads her into one misadventure after another.
_____ 293488  Duey, Kathleen  KATIE AND THE MUSTANG: BOOK FOUR  $9.55 Pub. Yr: 2004 
Age Range: 8 – 12  When Katie arrives in Oregon shortly before winter and her uncle 
is not there, she wonders what new life the west has in store for her and for her 
beloved Mustang.
_____ 401122  Gregory, Kristiana  SEEDS OF HOPE: THE GOLD RUSH DIARY OF SUSANNA 
FAIRCHILD  $12.77 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 9 – 14 AR RL: 5.50  A diary account of 
fourteen-year-old Susanna Fairchild’s life in 1849, when her father succumbs to 
gold fever on the way to establish his medical practice in Oregon.
_____ 440445  Hermes, Patricia  PERFECT PLACE: JOSHUA’S OREGON TRAIL DIARY  $12.77 
Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 7 – 10 AR RL: 3.80  Nine-year-old Joshua McCullough starts 
a second journal, recording events in Willamette Valley, Oregon Territory, as his 
family and others they met on the trail begin to get settled.
_____ 567026  Levine, Ellen  JOURNAL OF JEDEDIAH BARSTOW: AN EMIGRANT ON THE OREGON 
TRAIL  $12.77 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 9 – 14 AR RL: 5.30  In his 1845 diary, 
thirteen-year-old orphan, Jedediah, describes his wagon train journey to Oregon.  
Includes historical notes.
_____ 625410  McGill, Alice  MILES’ SONG  $15.60 Pub. Yr: 2000 Age Range: 10 – 14 
AR RL: 5.60  In 1851 in South Carolina, Miles, a twelve-year-old slave, is sent to 
a “breaking ground” to have his spirit broken but endures the experiences by 
secretly taking reading lessons from another slave.

PENNSYLVANIA
_____ 057162  Ammon, Richard  AMISH HORSES  $17.00 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 5 – 7 
AR RL: 4.20  An Amish boy cares for the horses that work on his family’s farm.
_____ 059760  Anderson, Laurie Halse  FEVER, 1793  $16.30 Pub. Yr: 2000 Age Range: 
10-16 AR RL: 4.40  In 1793, Matilda Cook learns about perseverance and 
self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever 
epidemic.
_____ 077895  Ayres, Katherine  VOICES AT WHISPER BEND  $9.73 Pub. Yr: 1999 Age 
Range: 10 – 16 AR RL: 3.90  In their Pennsylvania town in 1942 twelve-year-old 
Charlotte and her classmates collect scrap metal for the war effort only to have it 
disappear from the school basement.
_____ 300889  Easton, Richard  REAL AMERICAN  $15.60 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 8 – 
12 AR RL: 4.00  With his brother dead, his best friend moved away, and his father 
trying to save the family’s farm, eleven-year-old Nathan needs a friend, but can he 
find one among the immigrants who  have come to work in the new coal mine?
_____ 333248  Ferris, Amy Schor  GREATER GOODE  $15.60 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 10 
– 14 AR RL: 4.00  Twelve-year-old Addie worries about spending a summer without her 
best friend, Luke, and about the fate of an unwed pregnant woman.
_____ 359522  Fritz, Jean  CABIN FACED WEST  $16.29 Pub. Yr: 1958 Age Range: 10 – 
14 AR RL: 5.10  A visit by George Washington makes Ann Hamilton, a pioneer girl 
from Western Pennsylvania, feel the challenge of her own times.
_____ 371051  Gauch, Patricia Lee  THIS TIME, TEMPE WICK?  $12.07 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age 
Range: 8 – 12  Everyone knows Tempe Wick is a most surprising girl, but she exceeds 
even her own reputation when two mutinous U.S. Revolutionary War soldiers try to 
steal her beloved horse.
_____ 376139  Gerstein, Mordicai  SPARROW JACK  $16.30 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age Range: 4 – 
8 AR RL: 3.70  In 1868, John Bardsley brought one thousand sparrows from England to 
Philadelphia, where he hoped they would help save the trees from inch-worms that 
were destroying them.
_____ 380897  Glass, Andrew  BEWILDERED FOR THREE DAYS: AS TO WHY DANIEL BOONE 
NEVER WORE HIS COONSKIN CAP  $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2000 Age Range: 6 – 10 AR RL: 4.60  
With the help of what he learned from a Delaware Indian boy and an accommodating 
mother raccoon, young Daniel Boone escapes danger when a bear steals his coonskin 
cap.
_____ 402131  Griffin, Adele  WITCH TWINS  $15.42 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 7 – 10 
AR RL: 4.70  Troubled about being separated at school and preoccupied with 
sabotaging their father’s marriage, ten-year-old witches Claire and Luna have 
little time to think of something to do that will make them one-star witches.
_____ 440911  Hershenhorn, Esther  FANCY THAT  $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age Range: 4 – 
8 AR RL: 4.00  In 1841 in Pennsylvania, Pippin Biddle, determined to get his three 
orphaned sisters out of the poorhouse, tries to earn a living as an itinerant 
painter.
_____ 509306  Kay, Verla  HOMESPUN SARAH  $16.29 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age Range: 4 – 8 AR 
RL: 2.20  Simple rhyming text presents the everyday life of a young girl, living on 
a Pennsylvania farm in the early eighteenth century, who is quickly outgrowing her 
dress.
_____ 693434  Osborne, Mary Pope  STANDING IN THE LIGHT: THE CAPTIVE DIARY OF 
CATHARINE CAREY LOGAN  $12.77 Pub. Yr: 1998 Age Range: 9 – 14 AR RL: 5.10  A Quaker 
girl’s diary reflects her experiences growing up in Pennsylvania and her capture by 
Lenape Indians in 1763.
_____ 694165  Otto, Carolyn  PIONEER CHURCH  $16.97 Pub. Yr: 1999 Age Range: 6 – 9  
In the mid-1700s, four families build a log church on a hill in central 
Pennsylvania, and congregations worship in it and its replacement up through World 
War II.  Based on the history of Old Zion Church in Brickerville, Pennsylvania.
_____ 836109  Sorensen, Virginia Eggertsen  MIRACLES ON MAPLE HILL  $9.43 Pub. Yr: 
2003 Age Range: 9 – 12 AR RL: 4.90  Mary’s family moves to Maple Hill Farm, where 
they share many adventures that help restore their spirits and their bond with each 
other.
_____ 916849  Wallace, Rich  LOSING IS NOT AN OPTION  $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age 
Range: 12 –18 AR RL: 4.70  Nine episodes in the life of a young man, from sneaking 
into his tenth football game in a row with his best friend in sixth grade to 
running his last high school race, the Pennsylvania state championships.

RHODE ISLAND
_____ 077483  Avi  SOMETHING UPSTAIRS: A TALE OF GHOSTS  $16.27 Pub. Yr: 1988 Age 
Range: 10 – 12 AR RL: 4.10  When he moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode 
Island, Kenny discovers that his new house is haunted by the spirit of a black 
slave boy.
_____ 578857  Lisle, Janet Taylor  ART OF KEEPING COOL  $17.00 Pub. Yr: 2000 Age 
Range: 10 – 14  AR RL: 5.00  In 1942, Robert and his cousin uncover long-hidden 
family secrets while staying in their grandparents’ Rhode Island town.
_____ 578860  Lisle, Janet Taylor  CRYING ROCKS  $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age Range: 12 
– 16 AR RL: 4.50  Thirteen-year-old Joelle has always wondered about her life 
before being adopted and she makes some surprising discoveries while researching a 
seventeenth-century Indian tribe.

SOUTH CAROLINA
_____ 071165  Arrington, Aileen  CAMP OF THE ANGEL  $16.99 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age Range: 
9 – 12 AR RL: 4.30  Although teachers, counselors, and social workers try to help, 
it is a stray cat that finally enables eleven-year-old Jordan to stand up to the 
father who has beaten her and her brother for years.
_____ 361912  Fuqua, Jonathon Scott  DARBY  $16.99 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 10 – 14 
 AR RL: 4.80     In 1926, nine-year-old Darby Carmichael stirs up trouble in 
Marlboro County, South Carolina, when she writes a story for the local newspaper 
promoting racial equality.
_____ 549350  Lavender, William  JUST JANE: A DAUGHTER OF ENGLAND CAUGHT IN THE 
STRUGGLE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION  $17.00 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 12 – 18 AR RL: 
5.30  Jane Prentice, orphaned daughter of an English earl, arrives in South 
Carolina, in 1776 to find her loyalties divided over the question of American 
independence.
_____ 643740  Milhous, Katherine  EGG TREE: STORY AND PICTURES  $10.05 Pub. Yr: 
1992 Age Range: 4 – 8  Katy’s Easter morning discovery renews the tradition of the 
Easter egg tree.
_____ 742573  Reeder, Carolyn  BEFORE THE CREEKS RAN RED  $16.99 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age 
Range: 10 – 14 AR RL: 6.50  Through the eyes of three different boys, three linked 
novellas explore the time beginning with the secession of South Carolina and 
leading up to the first major battle of the Civil War.
_____ 958391  Wisler, G. Clifton  KINGS MOUNTAIN  $19.40  Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 
10 – 16 AR RL: 4.80  Fourteen-year-old Frank leaves his mountain home in the South 
to help the patriot cause during the Revolutionary War.

SOUTH DAKOTA
_____ 069150  Armstrong, Jennifer  BLACK-EYED SUSAN: A NOVEL  $9.55 Pub. Yr: 2001 
Age Range: 9-14 AR RL: 5.10  Ten-year-old Susie and her father love living on the 
South Dakota prairie but her mother misses their old life in Ohio.
_____ 071180  Arrington, Frances  PRAIRIE WHISPERS  $17.69 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age Range: 
10 – 14 AR RL: 3.80  Only twelve-year-old Colleen knows that her baby sister died 
just after she was born and that Colleen put another baby in her place, until the 
baby’s father makes trouble for her family on the South Dakota prairie in the 1860s.
_____ 372890  Geisert, Bonnie  PRAIRIE SUMMER  $15.60 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 8 – 
12 AR RL: 4.40  A young girl demonstrates the maturity gained from her experiences 
growing up with three sisters on a farm in South Dakota.
_____ 946732  Wilder, Laura Ingalls  BY THE SHORES OF SILVER LAKE  $16.99 Pub. Yr: 
1953 Age Rnage: 9 – 13 AR RL: 5.30  A true story description of a railroad building 
camp seen through the eyes of “Laura” at the age of thirteen.
_____ 946788  Wilder, Laura Ingalls  FIRST FOUR YEARS  $16.99 Pub. Yr: 1971 Age 
Range: 9 – 13 AR RL: 5.80  This is the story of Laura and Almanzo Wilder and their 
first four years together on a homestead in the 1880s.
_____ 946821  Wilder, Laura Ingalls  LITTLE TOWN ON THE PRAIRIE  $16.99 Pub. Yr: 
1953 Age Range: 9 – 13 AR RL: 5.40  Laura, at fifteen, receives her teaching 
certificate and gets a job, goes to parties, and even meets a young man.
_____ 946999  Wilder, Laura Ingalls  LONG WINTER  $16.99 Pub. Yr: 1953 Age Range: 9 
– 13 AR RL: 5.30  After Indians predicted a severe winter, Laura’s family moved 
into town where blizzards soon isolated them and supplies ran out.
_____ 947133  Wilder, Laura Ingalls  THESE HAPPY GOLDEN YEARS  $16.99 Pub. Yr: 1953 
Age Range: 9 –13 AR RL: 5.60  After a hard year teaching far away, Laura comes home 
to a brand new schoolhouse and her fiancé, Almanzo.

TENNESSEE
_____ 093312  Barrett, Tracy  COLD IN SUMMER  $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age Range: 10 – 
14 AR RL: 4.70  At the beginning of seventh grade, Ariadne moves to a Tennessee 
town near a former farming community submerged under a man-made lake and meets the 
ghost of a girl from the past.
_____ 144295  Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker  WEAVER’S DAUGHTER  $15.57 Pub. Yr: 2000 
Age Range: 8 – 12 AR RL:  4.00  In 1791 after her family’s journey from 
Pennsylvania, ten-year-old Lizzie suffers from the disease of asthma in her new 
home in the Southwest Territory (present-day Tennessee.)
_____ 288977  Dowell, Frances O’Roark  WHERE I’D LIKE TO BE  $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2003 
Age Range: 10 – 14 AR RL: 5.40  A group of foster children build a home of their 
own.
 _____ 440458  Hermes, Patricia  SWEET BY AND BY  $16.29 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 8 
– 12 AR  RL: 3.90  Eleven-year-old Blessing has lived with her grandmother since 
she was two years old, but now she has to accept that her grandmother is dying and 
that she must continue life without her in a new home.
_____ 480753  Isaacs, Anne  SWAMP ANGEL  $10.55 Pub. Yr: 2000 Age Range: 5 – 9 AR 
RL: 5.00  Along with other amazing feats, Angelica Longrider, also known as Swamp 
Angel, wrestles a huge bear to save the supplies of settlers in Tennessee.
_____ 628118  McKissack, Pat  COLOR ME DARK: THE DIARY OF NELLIE LEE LOVE, THE 
GREAT MIGRATION NORTH  $12.77 Pub. Yr: 2000 Age Range: 9 – 14 AR RL: 4.90  Nellie 
Lee records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee 
to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind.

TEXAS
_____ 097235  Bauer, Joan  RULES OF THE ROAD  $16.99 Pub. Yr: 1998 Age Range: 10 – 
14 AR RL: 5.00  Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a 
chain of successful shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who is 
trying to force her to retire.
_____ 149225  Brett, Jan  ARMADILLO RODEO  $16.99 Pub. Yr: 1995 Age Range: 4 – 8 AR 
RL: 3.40  Bo, a young armadillo, mistakes a red boot for another armadillo.
_____ 210134  Cherry, Lynne  ARMADILLO FROM AMARILLO  $17.00 Pub Yr: 1994 Age 
Range: 5 – 9 AR RL: 4.20  A wandering armadillo sees some of the cities, historic 
sites, geographic features, and wildlife of Texas.
_____ 212083  Chrismer, Melanie  PHOEBE CLAPPSADDLE AND THE TUMBLEWEED GANG  $15.57 
Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 5 – 8 AR RL: 4.30  Phoebe squares off against the meanest, 
dirtiest, most ill-mannered cowpokes in the territory.
_____ 314262  Erickson, John R.  MOONSHINER’S GOLD  $16.29 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 
10 – 15 AR RL: 4.40  In Canadian, Texas, in 1927, not long after his father’s 
death, Riley and his fiddle-playing grandfather must find a way to save the family 
ranch from a group of moonshiners and the men behind their operations.
_____ 322855  Farish, Terry  CAT WHO LIKED POTATO SOUP  $16.29 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age 
Range: 6 – 10 AR RL: 3.20  The friendship between an old man and his cat, both of 
whom like potato soup, is strained after he goes fishing without her.
_____ 367900  Garland, Sherry  LINE IN THE SAND: THE ALAMO DIARY OF LUCINDA 
LAWRENCE  $12.77 Pub. Yr: 1998 Age Range: 9 – 14 AR RL: 5.60  In the diary she 
receives for her thirteenth birthday in 1835, Lucinda Lawrence describes the 
hardships of her family.
_____ 402071  Griffin, Kitty  FOOT-STOMPING ADVENTURES OF CLEMENTINE SWEET  $15.60 
Pub. Yr: 2004 Age Range: 4 – 8 AR RL: 3.80  When her family ignores her on her 
sixth birthday, Clementine gets mad and starts stomping on people.
_____ 461200  Holt, Kimberly Willis  DANCING IN CADILLAC LIGHT  $16.99 Pub. Yr: 
2001 Age Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 5.10  In 1968, eleven-year-old Jaynell’s life in the 
town of  Moon, Texas, is enlivened when her eccentric Grandpap comes to live with 
her family.
_____ 461250  Holt, Kimberly Willis  WHEN ZACHARY BEAVER CAME TO TOWN  $16.97 Pub. 
Yr: 1999 Age Range: 10 – 15 AR RL: 4.50  During the summer of 1971 in a small Texas 
town, thirteen-year-old Toby and his best friend, Cal, meet the star of a sideshow 
act, 600-pound Zachary, the fattest boy in the world.
_____ 489133  Janke, Katelan  SURVIVAL IN THE STORM: THE DUST BOWL DIARY OF GRACE 
EDWARDS  $12.77 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 9 – 14 AR RL: 6.40  A twelve-year-old girl 
keeps a journal of her family’s and friends’ difficult experiences during the Great 
Depression.
_____ 497275  Johnston, Tony  COWBOY AND THE BLACK-EYED PEA  $10.05 Pub Yr: 1992 
Age Range: 4 – 8  In this adaptation of The Princess and the Pea, the wealthy 
daughter of a Texas rancher devises a plan to find a real cowboy among her many 
suitors.
_____ 516406  Ketteman, Helen  BUBBA THE COWBOY PRINCE: A FRACTURED TEXAS TALE  
$16.97 Pub. Yr: 1997 Age Range: 4 – 7 AR RL: 3.80  Loosely based on “Cinderella,” 
this story is set in Texas, the fairy godmother is a cow, and the hero, named 
Bubba, is the stepson of a wicked rancher.
_____ 588258  Love, D. Anne  I REMEMBER THE ALAMO  $16.27 Pub. Yr: 1999 Age Range:  
8 – 12  AR RL: 3.90  Eleven-year-old Jessie resents her father’s decision to move 
his family to San Antonio where they are caught up in the revolution of 1833-1836 
including the siege of the Alamo.

_____ 641355  Michaels, Vaughn  DODI’S PRINCE  $16.29 Pub. Yr: 2003 Age Range: 7 – 
10 AR RL: 4.00  Eight-year-old Dodi hopes to overcome the objections of her family 
and Texas trailer park neighbors so that she can keep the stray dog she calls 
Prince.
_____ 656200  Moore, Martha  MATCHIT  $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 
4.00  After his father leaves him with an old acquaintance in Texas, a resentful 
twelve-year-old boy lives by an auto junkyard while waiting for his father’s return.
_____ 666238  Myers, Anna  STOLEN BY THE SEA  $16.97 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 8 – 
12 AR RL: 4.20  In Galveston, Texas, a rich twelve-year-old girl and an orphaned 
fourteen-year-old boy work together to save themselves and others from the terrible 
hurricane of 1900.
_____ 677635  Nixon, Joan Lowery  TRAP  $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 12 – 16 AR 
RL: 4.80 Sixteen-year-old Julie agrees to spend the summer at her great-aunt and 
uncle’s ranch in Texas, but gets more than she bargained for when valuables 
suddenly start disappearing and it appears that there may be a murderer in their 
midst.
_____ 761822  Rogers, Kenny  CHRISTMAS IN CANAAN  $16.29 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 
12 – 18 AR RL: 5.40  In the early 1960s in a rural, racially charged Texas town, a 
poor white boy struggling to get through school and a book-loving black classmate 
find the common ground on which to build true friendship.
_____ 779705  Saunders, Susan  LUCKY LADY  $15.57 Pub. Yr: 2000 Age Range: 8 – 12 
AR RL: 5.10  On a summer visit to her grandfather’s ranch in Texas, twelve-year-old 
Jamie impulsively spends all her money on a wild filly and tries to figure out how 
to train her.

UTAH
_____ 584777  London, Jonathan  WHITE WATER  $16.29 Pub. Yr: 2001 Age Range: 3 – 8 
AR RL: 3.70  A boy learns to read the river when he goes white water rafting with 
his dad.
_____ 823636  Skurzynski, Gloria  GHOST HORSES  $10.03 Pub. Yr: 2002 Age Range: 10 
– 14 AR RL: 5.50  Visiting Zion National Park with his family, twelve-year-old Jack 
encounters two mysteries.
_____ 951317  Williams, Carol Lynch  MOTHER TO EMBARRASS ME  $16.27 Pub. Yr: 2002 
Age Range: 8 – 12 AR RL: 3.70  Twelve-year-old Laura can hardly believe how 
embarrassing her mother has become, especially now that she is pregnant.

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