item: #1 of 11
          id: 17418
      author: Woodrow, Wilson, Mrs.
       title: The Black Pearl
        date: None
       words: 87553
      flesch: 85
     summary: As far as I can make out, you're only laying up trouble for yourself, and also--here there rang a peculiarly menacing note through his soft, southern voice--if I'm correct, you're accusing Miss Pearl Gallito of being a suspicious character, and I'm assuring you now, boys, that either in the desert or here in the mountains that that's the sort of thing you've got to answer for. Mrs. Gallito, pale under her paint, was nervously biting her handkerchief and glancing from one man to the other, while the Pearl leaned back in her chair as lazily, languidly, scornfully indifferent as ever.
    keywords: 'em; arms; bob; cabin; dance; day; desert; eyes; face; father; flick; gallito; good; guess; hand; hanson; harry; head; heart; hughie; josé; kind; left; life; look; love; man; matter; mind; moment; mountains; mrs; new; night; nitschkan; old; pearl; room; rose; saw; seagreave; smile; snow; things; thomas; thought; time; voice; way; white; woman; world
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        item: #2 of 11
          id: 30686
      author: Foster, Ethel Twycross
       title: Little Tales of The Desert
        date: None
       words: 6819
      flesch: 88
     summary: Mary was so pleased at the sight that she clapped her little hands in glee and cried, You dear, cute little thing! Can I help you, little girl? said a tiny voice near by, you are getting your pretty dress soiled and your hair will be full of sand.
    keywords: cactus; day; desert; father; illustration; jack; mary; mother; road
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        item: #3 of 11
          id: 31556
      author: Otis, James
       title: Dick in the Desert
        date: None
       words: 18726
      flesch: 79
     summary: There is no reason why you should spend the time in trying to get food for us, Dick dear. Across the desert alone! A boy like me ought to be able to do it, and-- Your father hasn't a penny, Dick dear.
    keywords: boy; camp; daddy; desert; dick; father; little; man; mother; sand; spring; stevens; time; wagon; way
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        item: #4 of 11
          id: 36423
      author: Patchin, Frank Gee
       title: The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali; Or, Finding a Key to the Desert Maze
        date: None
       words: 49886
      flesch: 92
     summary: Master Tad is a better one. But Master Tad had already been using his eyes.
    keywords: angel; boys; bud; camp; chunky; desert; eyes; feet; guess; guide; head; horse; lad; lads; ned; parry; pony; professor; rider; right; stacy; stevens; tad; time; tom; trail; want; water; way; wild
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        item: #5 of 11
          id: 36914
      author: Gerard, Louise
       title: A Son of the Sahara
        date: None
       words: 84542
      flesch: 89
     summary: It was love Pansy had wanted in the moonlit garden with Le Breton's arms about her. I'll be there in ten minutes or so, They parted company, Le Breton going along the shore, Pansy up the shadowed steps.
    keywords: ammeh; arab; arms; barclay; black; boy; breton; casim; chapter; day; desert; english; eyes; face; father; french; george; girl; half; hand; heart; horse; le breton; life; look; looking; love; man; manner; men; night; pansy; raoul; rayma; room; sultan; things; thought; time; voice; way; white; wild; woman; world; years
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        item: #6 of 11
          id: 42361
      author: Burdick, Arthur J. (Arthur Jerome)
       title: The Mystic Mid-Region: The Deserts of the Southwest
        date: None
       words: 29648
      flesch: 72
     summary: Neither are subscriptions payable in cordwood, for that is a commodity unknown to desert towns. More recently, as the railroads have spanned the continent at different points, we have knowledge of several deserts.
    keywords: borax; burro; c. c.; c. pierce; california; co.; colorado desert; death; desert; desert region; feet; fields; gold; illustration; indians; land; level; line; man; men; miles; mojave; new; photograph; pierce; plant; prospector; region; river; salt; sea; thirst; time; town; valley; water; white
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        item: #7 of 11
          id: 43396
      author: Mangin, Arthur
       title: The Desert World
        date: None
       words: 175065
      flesch: 66
     summary: Cuvier divides the ruminants into two great sections: one comprising the ruminants without horns (genera, _camel_, _lama_, and _chevrotain_); and the other, those _with_ horns. The second, with its shrunken leaves, owes the specific epithet (_insignis_, remarkable) which botanists have imposed upon it, to the peculiar structure of its flowers.
    keywords: account; africa; america; animal; appearance; asia; aspect; banks; bear; birds; black; body; branches; brown; camel; cape; central; chapter; character; characteristics; coast; cold; colour; common; continent; countries; country; day; dead; deep; described; description; desert; distance; districts; earth; east; eastern; elevation; europe; european; extent; eyes; family; features; feet; flesh; flora; flowers; food; forests; form; fruit; genus; grass; gray; great; green; ground; habits; hair; half; head; height; hills; history; horse; illustration; inches; indian; inhabitants; islands; kind; lake; latitude; leaves; legs; length; level; life; like; lion; long; man; men; miles; mountains; natives; nature; neck; new; night; north; northern; number; ocean; order; palm; pampas; parts; place; plains; plants; point; portion; prairies; present; properties; race; red; region; river; rocks; roots; sahara; salt; sand; savage; sea; size; skin; snow; soil; south; southern; species; stature; steppes; summer; sun; surface; tail; thick; time; traveller; trees; tribes; tropical; variety; vegetable; vegetation; water; west; white; wild; wind; winter; wood; world; years; yellow
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        item: #8 of 11
          id: 51263
      author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
       title: The Scarecrow of Oz
        date: None
       words: 47683
      flesch: 88
     summary: [Illustration: Cap'n Bill] CHAPTER 1 The Great Whirlpool Seems to me, said Cap'n Bill, as he sat beside Trot under the big acacia tree, looking out over the blue ocean, seems to me, Trot, as how the more we know, the more we find we don't know. The Ork laughed softly and Cap'n Bill whistled to himself and Trot made up her mind that the Mountain Ear must be a little crazy.
    keywords: boy; bright; button; cap'n bill; country; girl; gloria; good; head; illustration; jinxland; king; land; man; ork; people; pon; sailor; scarecrow; time; trot; water; way; | |
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        item: #9 of 11
          id: 53684
      author: Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)
       title: In the Desert of Waiting: The Legend of Camel-back Mountain
        date: None
       words: 2921
      flesch: 82
     summary: Shapur worked diligently at this new task, until there came a day when Omar said to him, Well done, Shapur! And this, O Son of Shapur, is the secret of Omar's alchemy: To gather something from every one thou passest on the highway, and from every experience fate sends thee, as Omar gathered from the heart of every rose, and out of the wide knowledge thus gained of human weaknesses and human needs, to distil in thine own heart the precious oil of Sympathy.
    keywords: camel; desert; omar; shapur; thou
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        item: #10 of 11
          id: 5404
      author: Chase, Josephine
       title: Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Great American Desert
        date: None
       words: 42201
      flesch: 90
     summary: Grace Harlowe flings herself into the saddle, braced for the shock. CHAPTER II--AN OUTLAW MEETS HIS MATCH Grace fights a stubborn battle with the vicious bronco. Yeow! howled the cowboys, but Grace did not hear them, for the pony had dropped to all fours, and no sooner had his feet touched the ground than he leaped clear of it, coming down stiff-legged with a jolt that jarred Grace Harlowe throughout her body in spite of her effort to soften the shock by throwing most of her weight on the stirrups.
    keywords: briggs; camp; desert; elfreda; emma; find; girls; grace; guide; head; hi lang; hippy; lang; lieutenant; man; miss; night; overland; ping; ponies; pony; time; water; way; wingate
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        item: #11 of 11
          id: 957
      author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
       title: The Scarecrow of Oz
        date: None
       words: 47130
      flesch: 88
     summary: The Great Whirlpool Seems to me, said Cap'n Bill, as he sat beside Trot under the big acacia tree, looking out over the blue ocean, seems to me, Trot, as how the more we know, the more we find we don't know. The Ork laughed softly and Cap'n Bill whistled to himself and Trot made up her mind that the Mountain Ear must be a little crazy.
    keywords: boy; bright; button; cap'n bill; castle; country; girl; gloria; good; head; jinxland; king; land; man; ork; people; place; pon; sailor; scarecrow; time; trot; water; way
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