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2) Chase
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In the coal mining region of mid-nineteenth century eastern Pennsylvania, Phin witnesses a murder and runs for his life, pursued by a mysterious man and a horse with the instincts of a bloodhound.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In 1957, problems at the mine threaten to ruin Christmas for fifth-grader Don, his family, and the rest of their Oklahoma coal town, but Don's bloodhound, Frank, is determined to do whatever it takes to make the holiday special for Don and his six-year-old sister, Susan. Alternate chapters are told from the human and canine points of view.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Thirteen-year-old Trina's family left Bohemia for a Colorado coal town to earn money to buy a farm, but by 1901 she doubts that either hard work or hoping will be enough, even after a strange fish seems to grant her sisters' wishes.
7) Breaker boy
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In 1911 Pennsylvania, Corey, eleven, works in coal mines to help support his family, but when an accident triggers a phobia, he must turn to a strange recluse for help.
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
In 1885, a lonely illegitimate American boy and a lonely Chinese American boy develop an unlikely friendship in the midst of prejudices and racial tension in their coal mining town of Rock Springs, Wyoming.