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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Description
10-year-old Luke lives with his parents and grandparents in Arkansas during the Korean War. To pick the cotton in their fields, they must hire "hill people" and Mexicans. Hank is a "hill person" who doesn't take kindly to people looking down on him. Luke witnesses a fight that Hank gets into that causes the death of another person. With better times ahead to look forward to, the town gets excited about a new invention - television.
Author
Series
Charlie Parker thriller volume 18
Description
"It is 1999, and someone is slaughtering young black women in Burdon County, Arkansas. But no one wants to admit it, not in the Dirty South. In an Arkansas jail cell sits a former NYPD detective, stricken by grief. He is mourning the death of his wife and child, and searching in vain for their killer. He cares only for his own lost family. But that is about to change. Witness the becoming of Charlie Parker."--
Author
Publisher
W Publishing Group, an Imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
In this "authorized biography of Michael Dale Huckabee, Scott Lamb reached into the vaults of Huckabee's past to show us the man behind the politician. With access to to personal and professional files, including dozens of exclusive interviews with family and friends..."--Page 4 of cover.
5) Arkansas
Author
Publisher
Capstone High/Low Books
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book gives an overview of Arkansas, including its history, geography, people, and living conditions.
6) The hunt
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"For seventeen years, a serial murderer has used the Presley, Arkansas, Annual Hunt for the Golden Egg to find prey. Or at least that's what some people believe. Others, like the town's devoted "Eggheads," relish the tradition and think the deaths are just unfortunate accidents. But for Nell Holcomb, the town's annual Hunt dredges up 7, long believed to be "the Hunter's" first kill. Nell has been caring for her nephew since then, trying to keep him...
7) Arkansas
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Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Explores the land, people, history, economy, and travel opportunities of state of Arkansas.
8) Arkansas
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Presents the geography, history, government, and people of Arkansas.
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo & Daughters, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Presents the history, geography, climate, plants and animals, cities, transportation, natural resources, industry, sports, entertainment, and people of Colorado, as well as general facts about the Natural State.
13) Real bad things
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
When the body of her violent stepfather surfaces in the Arkansas River twenty-five years after his disappearance, Jane Mooney returns to Maud Bottoms to reckon with her past, and discovers some secrets are better left undisturbed.
14) The witness
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Formats
Description
"Daughter of a cold, controlling mother and an anonymous donor, studious, obedient Elizabeth Fitch finally let loose one night, drinking too much at a nightclub and allowing a strange man's seductive Russian accent to lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive. The events that followed changed her life forever. Twelve years later, the woman now known as Abigail Lowery lives alone on the outskirts of a small town in the Ozarks. A freelance programmer,...
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Series
Description
The jailhouse lawyer: A young lawyer takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown--and ends up in jail herself. In picture-perfect Erva, Alabama, the most serious crimes are misdemeanors. Speeding tickets. Shoplifting. Contempt of court. Then why is the jail so crowded? And why are so few prisoners released? There's only one place to learn the truth behind these incriminating secrets. Sometimes the best education a lawyer can get is a short stretch...
18) From thin air
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Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Ira McNewell was supposed to be dead. The government had sent a telegram saying he had been killed in action yet there he was, sprawled out beneath Alice on the floor of the Black Swan Hotel. For a minute she thought she'd died when she fell off the ladder and he'd come to escort her to heaven. Ira had been engaged to Alice's sister when he went off to war. Now Alice had to tell him that flu had wiped out his family and his fiancée had married another...
Author
Series
Arly Hanks volume 12
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2000
Description
When the uproarious town of Maggody, Arkansas, plugs into the Internet, the digital age turns deadly. Aside from the odd stolen dog or vandalized lawn ornament, there's been no recent crime in Maggody, Arkansas, population 755, and that's how Chief of Police Arly Hanks likes it. Things have been so quiet she's taken to sitting in on school-board meetings, and she's doing just this when the high school announces the new computer lab, which will be...
Author
Series
Arly Hanks volume 13
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
A youth trip turns deadly, and Chief of Police Arly Hanks must catch the killer while serving as chaperone, in this hilarious small-town mystery. Arly Hanks has caught all sorts of killers since she returned home to Maggody, Arkansas, population 759, but she's never tangled with anyone as devious as the local youth group. While chaperoning a trip to Camp Pearly Gates, Arly watches the kids as closely as she would any hardened criminal, but when teenagers...
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