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3) Christy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
The train taking nineteen-year-old teacher Christy Huddleston from her home in Asheville, North Carolina, might as well be transporting her to another world. The Smoky Mountain community of Cutter Gap feels suspended in time, trapped by poverty, superstitions, and century-old traditions. But as Christy struggles to find acceptance in her new home, some see her — and her one-room school — as a threat to their way of life. Her faith is
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Series
Princess Academy trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Miri returns to Asland and calls upon all of her knowledge of rhetoric and other useful lessons learned at the Princess Academy when she and the other girls face strong opposition while working for a new, fair charter.
Author
Series
First mountain man series volume 13
Language
English
Description
This mountain man has the Good Book—and a fast draw—on his side. From the New York Time bestselling author of Preacher's Fortune.
The harsh, unforgiving frontier is no place for innocents. And when an old friend of the Preacher's asks him to guide a gaggle of wide-eyed Easterners through the Rockies, Preacher responds with a polite: "Hell no." But the pilgrims are pursued by a gang of outlaws—and...
The harsh, unforgiving frontier is no place for innocents. And when an old friend of the Preacher's asks him to guide a gaggle of wide-eyed Easterners through the Rockies, Preacher responds with a polite: "Hell no." But the pilgrims are pursued by a gang of outlaws—and...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Descent, the story of a family undone by the disappearance of a daughter who went out for a morning run and didn't come back, marks the adult fiction debut of a remarkable young writer. Stunning in its emotional impact, Descent is a compulsively readable page-turner with a strong literary sensibility. The girl's vanishing--on a sunny, late-summer vacation morning--all the more devastating for its mystery, is the beginning of the family's harrowing...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
While attempting to escape a civil war, four people are kidnapped and transported to the Tibetan mountains. After their plane crashes, they are found by a mysterious Chinese man. He leads them to a monastery hidden in "the valley of the blue moon"--a land of mystery and matchless beauty where life is lived in tranquil wonder, beyond the grasp of the doomed world.
Author
Series
Last Mountain Man series volume 13
Language
English
Description
Summary: When his wife is kidnapped during a visit to Boston, Smoke Jensen, the most powerful man on the Sugarloaf frontier, travels back to Dodge City and up to Yellowstone, where he faces a showdown with the culprits, a gang of hired guns.
Author
Series
Princess Academy trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Miri is eager to return to her beloved Mount Eskel after a year at the capital, but the king and queen ask her to first journey to a distant swamp and start her own miniature princess academy for three royal cousins, but once there she must solve a mystery before she can return home.
Author
Series
First mountain man series volume 20
Language
English
Description
It's fur trapping season and Preacher is about to discover the Rocky Mountain trail holds more than wild game -- it's also infested with murderers and trail trash quick to deceive, steal, and hunt Preacher down. Among them are Jebediah Druke, his ruthless band of killers, and most terrifying of all, the barbaric renegade Crow warrior known as Blood Eye. There's a showdown coming and only one man will ultimately rise up out of the carnage . . .
Author
Series
Superstition Mountain mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When brothers Simon, Henry, and Jack move with their parents to Arizona, they are irresistably drawn to explore the aptly named Superstition Mountain, in spite of warnings that it is not safe.
Author
Publisher
Bucking Horse Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
Focusing on the work of University of Montana professor Richard Hutto, this book tells the story of how dozens of species of birds use the burn areas of wildfires. At least 15 bird species prefer burned forests to all other habitats.
16) Appalachian song
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Language
English
Description
Bertie Jenkins has spent forty years serving as a midwife for her community in the Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee. Out of all the mothers she's tended, none affects her more than the young teenager who shows up on her doorstep, injured, afraid, and expecting, one warm June day in 1943. As Bertie and her four sisters tenderly nurture Songbird back to health, the bond between the childless midwife and the motherless teen grows strong. But soon...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Photographs and text provide information on the Rocky Mountains, covering the topography, climate, plant and animal life, unique geographical features, human cultures, and problems facing the region.
Author
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Language
English
Description
Two Colorado authors, one on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains, the other on the western, begin writing letters to one another at the beginning of Colorado's shelter-in-place orders. Their friendship forms and blooms amidst discussions of COVID-19, nature, politics, and daily life.
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