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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 17
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Hold on to your hats: The authors who brought you the New York Times bestseller My Plain Jane, which Booklist praised as delightfully deadpan (starred review) and Publishers Weekly called a clever, romantic farce (starred review), are back with another irreverent historical adventure. Welcome to 1876 America, a place bursting with gunslingers, outlaws, and garou -- better known as werewolves. And where there are garou, there're hunters: the one and...
3) Annie Oakley
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
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A fictionalized account, told as if by Will Rogers, of the life of the female sharpshooter who became famous starring in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show.
4) Annie Oakley
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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A biography of the frontier woman who was famous for her skills as a sharpshooter which she demonstrated in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and other shows of the time.
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[2005]
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In this dual biography, McMurtry explores the lives, the legends, and above all the truth about two larger-than-life American figures. With his Wild West show, Buffalo Bill Cody helped invent the image of the West that still exists today--cowboys and Indians, rodeo, rough rides, sheriffs and outlaws, trick shooting, Stetsons, and buck-skin. His most celebrated protégée, the short, slight Annie Oakley--born Phoebe Ann Moses in Ohio--spent sixteen...
8) Annie Oakley
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
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A biography of the markswoman and performer who achieved fame with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show.
10) Annie Oakley
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Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Annie Oakley had a difficult childhood. Her father died when she was six, so she had to live with other people, including a family who threw her out of the house in the middle of a snowstorm. But Annie persevered. She found she had a natural gift for shooting, and she used her gift to defeat a traveling marksman named Frank Butler. Soon they were married and partners in shooting exhibitions. When Annie joined Buffalo Bill s Wild West Show, she became...
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[2022]
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Annie Oakley has always suspected there is something "uncanny" about herself, but has never been able to put a name to it. But when Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show goes on tour through Germany, Bill temporarily hires a new sharpshooter to be part of his "World Wide Congress of Rough Riders." As they travel and perform, Annie must use her newfound knowledge and rare skill to combat creatures of the night scattered across the countryside, who threaten...
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c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Twelve-year-old Tay, living with her brother Jem while he works at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, gets an opportunity to see Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and meet the famous Annie Oakley, who has a profound influence on her life.
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"Annie Oakley's Wild West Americana and time travel come together in this genre-defying novel that explores trauma and the cost of female revenge. Ruth McClintock is obsessed with the past. For nearly a decade, she has been studying Annie Oakley, convinced that the legendary sharpshooter experienced a scarring event in adolescence that led her to fight for the right of every American woman to own and operate a gun. This fruitless search has cost Ruth...
16) Annie Oakley
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Pub. Date
c1992
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Documents the life and career of Annie Oakley, America's greatest female sharpshooter.
17) Annie Oakley
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Annie Oakley first picked up a gun at age eight and by age 22 was performing sharpshooting acts. She went on to travel the world and became America's first female superstar.
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