Robert Newton Peck
5) Horse thief
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In 1938, with the help of a lady doctor and an aging, card-cheating, dice-rolling horse thief, a seventeen-year-old orphan steals thirteen horses from Chickalookee, Florida's doomed rodeo, and finds a family in the process.
6) Bro: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Young Tug Dockery witnesses a brutal act by his grandfather that leaves him unable to speak, so when his parents die, Tug's beloved older brother feels compelled to escape from a hellish labor camp to rescue him from their grandfather's Florida cattle ranch.
7) Cowboy ghost
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Growing up without a mother and with an aloof father on a cattle ranch in Florida in the first part of the 1900s has made Titus very close to his older brother, Micah, and determined to make Micah proud of him when the two go on their first cattle drive together.
8) Soup in love
Author
Series
Soup volume 12
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
As Valentine's Day approaches their Vermont town of Learning, Soup and Rob experience several forms of love.
9) Soup & me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
The further adventures and misadventures of Rob and Soup, two boys growing up in a small Vermont town.
10) Soup on fire
Author
Series
Soup volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Rob and Soup set in motion a wild scheme to catch the eye of the Hollywood talent scout visiting their small Vermont town.
11) Soup on wheels
Author
Series
Soup volume 5
Description
Rob and Soup vie for the prize in their town's "Vermont Mardy Grah."
12) Soup's uncle
Author
Series
Soup volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
A visit from Uncle Virus and his motorcycle gang stimulates Soup to new and ingenious schemes, involving a cache of moonshine, a motorcycle competition, and revenge on the dreaded Janice Riker.
13) Extra innings
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
After a tragic airplane crash that claims the lives of most of his family, sixteen-year-old Tate goes to live with his wealthy great-grandfather and his adopted black great-aunt Vidalia and he finds unexpected solace in the stories of her childhood spent travelling with a Depression-era Negro baseball team.
14) Trig
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1977
Description
A young girl living on a Vermont farm relates the events of the day her uncle brought her a genuine "Junior G-man machine gun."
15) Soup on ice
Author
Series
Soup volume 8
Pub. Date
[1985]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Rob and Soup engineer an incredible appearance by Santa and his sleigh in their small Vermont town.
Author
Series
Soup volume 6
Pub. Date
[1983]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Anticipating the celebration of Miss Kelly Day in honor of the teacher of their one-room school in Learning, Vermont, Soup and Rob save the day from certain catastrophe at the hands of Dr. Elsa Pinkerton Uppit.
17) Soup's hoop
Author
Series
Soup volume 11
Pub. Date
1990.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Soup's crazy plan to help his town's basketball team to victory includes constructing a musical instrument called a spitzentootle and snaring the evil Janice Riker in an unpleasant trap.
18) Soup's goat
Author
Series
Soup volume 7
Pub. Date
1984
Description
Clean and tidy cousin Sexton lends his unusual talent to Soup and Rob as they engage in the town's goat-cart race in Vermont.
19) Soup's drum
Author
Series
Soup volume 4
Pub. Date
c1980
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Author
Pub. Date
1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
In 1932 in Florida, despite his older brother's objections, fifteen-year-old Ladd finds himself, through a series of unforeseen circumstances, traveling alone more than 100 miles to bring back wild horses for the rodeo and for breeding.