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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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An intimate portrait of two men who cherish the slim bond between them and the dream they share in a world marred by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy,and callousness. Clinging to each other in their loneliness and alienation, George and his simple-minded friend Lenny dream, as drifters will, of a place to call their own - a couple of acres and a few pigs, chickens, and rabbits back in Hill Country where land is cheap. But after they come...
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"Hewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in all of Western fiction, returns in this novel of his younger years as he and his beloved brother Walter leave the family farm in 1889 to find work in the West Texas cow country. The brothers are polar opposites. Walter pines for a sedate life as a farmer, with wife and children; Hewey is a fiddle-footed cowboy content to work at six bits--75 cents--a day on the Pecos River ranch owned by the penny-pinching...
3) Cowboys run
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
There's never a dull moment from the time Clint Northern meets dan john Fighting Bear at his grandaughter's dirthday party. the two take an instant dislike to each other but find themselves unlikely partners when they're mistaken as the culprits of a local bingo heist.
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
The good, the bad and the ugly: By far the most ambitious, unflinchingly graphic and stylistically influential western ever mounted. This is an engrossing actioner shot through with a volatile mix of myth and realism. Clint Eastwood returns as the "Man With No Name," this time teaming with two gunslingers to pursue a cache of money and letting no one, not even warring factions in a civil war, stand in their way.
Hang 'em high: Jed Cooper is mistaken...
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