Morrie Morgan novels (Ivan Doig)
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Morrie Morgan novels (Ivan Doig) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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In 1909, struggling to farm his remote homestead and raise three sons, widower Oliver Milliron desperately needs help. A housekeeper's ad in a Milwaukee newspaper, "Can't cook but doesn't bite," leads him to hire her sight unseen. When perky Rose Llewellyn arrives, she brings her brainy brother, Morris. Though Rose whistles through her work at the Milliron house, and Morris becomes teacher at the one-room school, these two newcomers conceal a past...
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2010
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English
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Morrie Morgan, itinerant teacher, walking encyclopedia, and inveterate charmer, was last seen leaving a one-room schoolhouse in Marias Coulee, the stage he stole in Ivan Doig's The Whistling Season. A decade on, Morrie is back in Montana. Caught up in the mounting clash between the copper-mining company, radical "outside agitators," and the beleaguered miners, he finds a unique way to give a voice to those who truly need one.
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In the winter of 1920, a bequest draws Morrie Morgan back to Butte, Montana, with his bride, Grace. But the mansion bestowed by a former boss proves to be less windfall than money pit. And the town, with its polyglot army of miners struggling against the ruthless Anaconda Copper Mining Company, seems on the verge of implosion. These twin dilemmas catapult Morrie into his new career as editorialist for the Thunder, the fledgling union newspaper.