Patricia Hermes
1) Black Cloud
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Despite the dangers, Black Cloud enjoys his life as a wild mustang colt in 1951 Nevada but when humans round up and slaughter his herd, he is rescued by a talkative girl named Annie who gives him a safe and comfortable life, lacking nothing but freedom.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sarah Morrow doesn't think much of the fact that her mother winced a little when she hugged her. In fact, that first small indication of something wrong escapes the whole family. Three weeks later though there can be no escape. Sarah's mother has been diagnosed with incurable cancer and the love this family shares becomes a desperate clinging.
But Sarah's mother has a gift. A gift for reaffirming life. And even as she leaves
...3) Koda
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
136
Language
English
Description
Traveling with his owners from Missouri to Oregon in 1848, Koda, an energetic two-year-old quarter horse, finds the long journey increasingly tedious and tiring until his young owner goes missing on the trail and he must use all his skills to find her.
Author
Series
Emma Dilemma volume 3
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Children
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
120 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Emma and her brothers and sisters want to get a kitten and another ferret, and Emma wants their nanny to be the chaperone on her soccer team trip instead of her mother, the children decide to go on strike to try to force their parents to meet their demands.
Author
Series
Emma Dilemma volume 4
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Children
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
137 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Emma O'Fallon finds herself in increasing difficulties at home and at school as her determined efforts to break up the growing attachment between Annie, the Irish nanny, and Bo, her boyfriend, cause chaos on a family camping trip and Emma'srelationship with her best friend Luisa seems to be going from bad to worse.
Author
Series
Emma Dilemma volume 2
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Children
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st Marshall Cavendish pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
117 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Emma tries to help her parents understand that, although their beloved new nanny has made a few mistakes, no one can behave perfectly responsibly all the time.
Author
Series
Emma Dilemma volume 1
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Children
Pub. Date
2010, c2006
Edition
1st Marshall Cavendish pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
106 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Emma tries to help her parents understand that, although their beloved new nanny has made a few mistakes, no one can behave perfectly responsibly all the time.
Author
Series
Joshua's Oregon Trail diary volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
108 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Late in 1848, nine-year-old Joshua McCullough starts a second journal, this time recording events in Willamette Valley, Oregon Territory, as his family and others they met on the trail begin to get settled.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
108 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1611, ten-year-old Elizabeth continues a journal of her experiences living in Jamestown, as her brother Caleb rejoins the family, a new strict governor comes to the colony, and her father considers remarriage.
Author
Series
Emma Dilemma volume 6
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Children
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
137 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Emma's happy summer of soccer camp with best friend Luisa and visits to Rooney, the beloved old horse at the nearby stables where Annie the nanny helps out, changes when she discovers that Rooney is being sold and Luisa has some unhappy news.
Author
Series
Emma Dilemma volume 5
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Children
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
137 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Emma struggles with finding the perfect time to confess to her parents that she brought her pet ferret on vacation to Maine, and trying to save her favorite tree that a new neighbor wants to cut down.