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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 13
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When Colorado carpenter Gary Adams spots two mysterious creatures in the woods near his house, he calls on his friend, veterinarian Cammy Rivers for advice. But like Gary, Cammy has never seen an animal resembling this beautiful species. But when the Department of Homeland Security puts a call out for Gary and Cammy because of these animals, the two risk everything to protect the innocent creatures.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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While grieving her husband's murder, a young Colorado veterinarian meets a troubled FBI agent and begins to uncover the world's most sinister secrets in this thriller from James Patterson.
Frannie O'Neill is a young and talented veterinarian living in Colorado. Plagued by the mysterious murder of her husband, Frannie throws herself into her work, but it is not long before another bizarre murder occurs and Kit Harrison, a troubled and unconventional...
Frannie O'Neill is a young and talented veterinarian living in Colorado. Plagued by the mysterious murder of her husband, Frannie throws herself into her work, but it is not long before another bizarre murder occurs and Kit Harrison, a troubled and unconventional...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
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One of the most beloved novels in recent years, Plainsong was a best-seller from coast to coast—and now Kent Haruf returns to the High Plains community of Holt, Colorado, with a story of even more masterful authority.
When the McPheron brothers see Victoria Roubideaux, the single mother they’d taken in, move from their ranch to begin college, an emptiness opens before them—and for many other townspeople it also promises...
When the McPheron brothers see Victoria Roubideaux, the single mother they’d taken in, move from their ranch to begin college, an emptiness opens before them—and for many other townspeople it also promises...
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Series
Diamond of the Rockies volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 21
Description
Driven by hope and vengeance, Carina Maria DiGratia leaves her idyllic home in Sonoma, California, for a new life in the mining town of Crystal, Colorado. Though the town has a rough element, Carina is determined that it is the place her dreams will come true. Early on, two men vie for her trust, but neither is what he seems. Will Carina discern the truth in time to prevent tragedy?
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Series
Diamond of the Rockies volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Newly married Carina DiGratia Shephard longs to make a home for herself and her husband, Quillan, in the rugged mining town of Crystal, Colorado. Quillan, however, has turned away to confront the haunting pain of his troubled childhood. Out of her loneliness, Carina opens a restaurant, and through its success soon attains the independence and identity she has long sought. When Carina is attacked in retaliation for her kindness to the destitute families...
8) Tallgrass
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Description
During World War II, a family finds life turned upside-down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes turn on the newcomers. Rennie has just turned thirteen and until this time, life has pretty much been predictable and fair. But the winds of change are coming, and with them, a shift in her perspective and a discovery of secrets that can destroy even the most sacred...
9) Wild inferno
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Sandi Ault's compelling Wild Mysteries starring Federal Agent Jamaica Wild are infused with intimate details of Pueblo culture. Sent to rescue a man called Grampa Ned from a wildfire on the Southern Ute Reservation, Jamaica is surprised to find a severely burned firefighter separated from his crew. He mutters something cryptic, and soon she's on the trail of an even greater crime.
10) Showdown
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Series
Publisher
WestBow Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
Description
"It all begins with the sound of lone footsteps clacking down the blacktop on a hot, lazy summer afternoon. The black-cloaked man arrives at the sleepy town of Paradise and manages to become the talk of the twon within the hour. Bearing the power to grant any unfulfilled dream, he is irresistible." "Seems like bliss...but it it? Or is all hell about to break loose in Paradise?
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Series
St. Rosetta's Academy volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Told in two voices, Jaya Rao, an East Indian princess, and Grey Emerson, an English lord, suffer the effects of a centuries-old feud when they meet at an elite Colorado boarding school.--
12) Plainsong
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Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
The interwoven lives of a community in Colorado. The characters include two cattle farmers who take in a girl, thrown out of her house for becoming pregnant. The novel describes the girl's impact on their lives, both men being bachelors.
13) Deviant
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Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Fourteen-year-old Danny Lopez reviews the path that led him from Las Vegas, Nevada, to an experimental school near Colorado Springs and then to his imminent death at the hands of a cat-killer ready for bigger prey.
14) The lake house
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
The six children have escaped horrifying government experiments, a childhood in captivity and and frightening brush with death. Living out in the world for the first time, they yearn to be reunited with Kit and Frannie, the couple who saved their lives. And Max, the leader of the flock, is seized by and overpowering fear that the kids are about to face a danger greater than any they've ever known. All that the children want is to return to the one...
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Series
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Living on the University of Colorado-Boulder campus with his older brother Alex, a college student and ex-gang member, high school senior Carlos is not ready to give up his wild ways until he meets a shy classmate named Kiara and becomes unwillingly involved in a drug ring.
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Told from their own viewpoints, seventeen-year-old Jill, in grief over the loss of her father, and Mandy, nearly nineteen, are thrown together when Jill's mother agrees to adopt Mandy's unborn child but nothing turns out as they had anticipated.
17) Sadie
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Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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Sadie's been raising her sister Mattie in an isolated Colorado town, trying her best to provide a normal life and keep their heads above water. When Mattie is found dead, and the police investigation is botched, Sadie is determined to bring her sister's killer to justice. She hits the road following a few meager clues. When West McCray, a radio personality working on a segment about small, forgotten towns in America, hears Sadie's story, he becomes...
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