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4) Daniel Boone
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A biography of the legendary hero of the American frontier, emphasizing his skill as a woodsman, exploration of the Cumberland Gap, and relationship with native Americans.
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Lovely but tough as nails, Lael Click is the daughter of a celebrated frontiersman. Haunted by her father's former captivity with the Shawnee Indians, as well as the secret sins of her family's past, Lael comes of age in the fragile Kentucky settlement her father founded. Though she faces the loss of a childhood love, a dangerous family feud, and the affection of a Shawnee warrior, Lael draws strength from the rugged land she calls home, and from...
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2010
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Morrow Little is haunted by the memory of the day her family was torn apart by raiding Shawnee warriors. Now that she is nearly a grown woman and her father is ailing, she must make difficult choices about the future. Several men--ranging from the undesired to the unthinkable--vie for her attentions, but she finds herself inexplicably drawn to a forbidden love that both terrifies and intrigues her. Can she betray the memory of her lost loved ones--and...
10) Tree of freedom
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
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The two eldest children of a pioneer family are determined to carry their love of beauty and learning to their new home in the Kentucky Wilderness.
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c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Relates episodes from the life of Daniel Boone, a talented hunter and woodsman who helped explore the American West.
"Nadie puede abrir un camino ni rastrear un venado como Daniel Boone. Este joven hará posible que muchos pioneros viajen al Oeste"--Back cover.
14) Daniel Boone
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Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Daniel Boone loved to explore the wild places of the American colonies. As a boy, he learned the ways of the woods from Indians and other hunters. He grew into a young man who could find his way though the wilderness alone and hunt as well as anyone. Then, in the 1760s, he heard of a beautiful land called Kentucky. This is the story of how Daniel Boone opened a road to the west and became an American legend.
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"The explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the height of their writing power--Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America's "First Frontier" beyond the Appalachian Mountains commence a series of bloody battles. These violent conflicts...
17) Daniel Boone
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Pub. Date
[1989]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 8
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Traces the life of the colonial pioneer, hunter, and woodsman, from his youth in the Pennsylvania wilderness to his adventures exploring the frontier, especially the "dark and bloody" land called Kentucky.
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2007.
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This sweeping biography is the story of early America--its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny. Novelist Morgan transforms a mythic American hero--a legend in his own time--into a flesh-and-blood man, the man who was the largest spirit of his time. Hunter, explorer, settler, visionary, he was a trailblazer and a revolutionary--an American icon for more than two hundred years. Born in 1734, Boone served in the Virginia legislature, participated...
