Alison Hart
1) Risky Chance
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 7
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the mid- to late-1930s, Risky Chance grows from a spirited colt to a winning racehorse, but an injury and the Great Depression bring hardship that only a special little girl can help him overcome.
2) The runaway
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Scooter, Maryellen's pudgy pet dachshund, may be lazy, but he's one of the family, and Maryellen loves him dearly. And he never misses a meal! So when Scooter doesn't show up at dinnertime, she's worried. Maryellen launches a search and discovers some strange goings-on in her neighborhood. With the help of her friends and family, the search for Scooter takes Maryellen from the streets of Daytona Beach to the rocket launchpad at Cape Canaveral!
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Having never excelled at schoolwork, twelve-year-old Anna discovers that she may know a few things about survival when the 1888 Children's Blizzard traps her and her classmates in their Nebraska schoolhouse.
Author
Series
Dog chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"In 1900, a dog named Murphy wants to help Sally and Mama build a new life in Nome, but life in the mining town is not easy. Can the three of them find a home--and maybe a fortune?"--
Author
Series
Dog chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In Cosham, England, in 1917, Darling, a mischievous collie, must leave the children who love her when she is chosen for training as a mercy dog, seeking out injured soldiers on the battlefield and leading medics to them.
6) Bell's Star
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the Vermont spring of 1853, Bell's Star, a Morgan horse, and his owner Katie rescue a runaway slave and try to outwit the slave catchers in order to help her to freedom.
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Zanne Klein never planned to be a personal assistant to Hollywood royalty Ted and Holly Stabler. But a decade in at thirty-eight, that's exactly how she spends her days, earning six figures to make sure the movie mogul and his family have everything they could ever dream of and more. However, today is no ordinary day at the Stabler estate. Tonight, everyone who's anyone will be there for the Hollywood event of the season, and if the party’s a success,...
10) Bound for snow
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
The reader's decisions determine the main character's success in learning to snowboard and train a young dog to pull a dogsled.
11) Emma's river
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1852, Emma, her pregnant mother and her pony board the steamboat Sally May to meet her father in St. Joseph, Missouri, but when the ship suddenly explodes in a fiery blaze, Emma and all onboard must fight for their survival in the icy waters of the Missouri River.