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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
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In the California apple country, nine hundred migratory workers rise up "in dubious battle" against the landowners. The group takes on a life of its own-stonger than its individual members and more frightening. led by the doomed Jim Nolan, the strike is founded on his tragic idealism-on the "courage never to submit or yield."
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Bella Vista volume 1
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Tess Delaney makes her living restoring stolen treasures to their rightful owners. People like Annelise Winther, who refuses to sell her long-gone mother's beloved necklace, found by Tess years after it was stolen during WWII. To Annelise, the jewel's value is in its memories. Tess's own history, however, is filled with gaps. She has a father she's never met, and a mother who spent more time traveling than with her daughter. So Tess is shocked when...
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Amish vines and orchards volume 4
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2014.
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Rhoda Byler has found a new confidence living among the Old Order Amish in Orchard Bend, Maine. She is happy working alongside the King family and the love of her life while tending their orchard. Then the involvement of Leah King with Englischer Landon Olson threatens the Maine community. An estranged King brother is called upon to return and unite the settlement.
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TJ volume 1605
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Briefly describes the life of John Chapman, who wandered through the frontier for forty years, planting apple trees and helping pioneers.
13) Johnny Appleseed
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Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Who's that walking along the Ohio? It's Johnny Appleseed! He walks across the land, planting trees wherever he goes. So, everyone, clap your hands for Johnny Appleseed!
14) A late frost
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When newcomer Monica Whitman falls ill and dies, supposedly due to food poisoning, orchard owner Meg Corey Chapman investigates and soon discovers that there is one bad apple in the bunch as it becomes clear that Monica was murdered.
18) Johnny Appleseed
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Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Recounts the story of the man who traveled around planting apple seeds to make the country a better place to live.
19) Johnny Appleseed
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Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Explores the background, accomplishments, and stories of American folk hero Johnny Appleseed.
20) Amazing apples
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Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Simple poems in acrostic form describe an apple orchard through the seasons, as well as the activities of the family that tends the orchard. Includes a page of notes about apples.