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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
305 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney confronts dramatic changes in her life--her daughter's marriage and move to Italy, her husband's new job, and a mysterious stranger with a long-buried secret.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
A portable radio helps a girl survive after she is lost in the woods of New England. During her nine-day ordeal, Trisha McFarland fights thirst, wasps and the terrors of the night, all the while keeping up her spirits by listening to music and baseball games.
3) Chill factor
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a serial killer who leaves a blue ribbon at the site of his victims' last sightings appears in the peaceful town of Cleary, North Carolina, police chief Dutch Burton finds the case complicated by his ex-wife's disappearance during a blizzard.
4) Heidi
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Heidi is sent from her happy mountain home to a big city where she can go to school and be a companion for Clara, a wealthy, gentle girl who cannot walk. But the goats and the Grandfather are Heidi's only happiness and when she returns home, Clara soon follows to find health in the clean Alpine air.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A stunning, inspirational memoir from an award-winning poet who ventures into the wilderness to seek answers to life's big questions and finds her way back after losing everything she thought she needed. Karen's rich and compulsively readable memoir is as much an inward as it is an outward pilgrimage. Her pursuit of solace and salvation by shedding trivial ties and living in close harmony with nature, along with her account of finding community and...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.
Author
Series
Blue Ridge legacy volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Physical Desc
400p. 21cm.
Language
English
11) Highland mercies
Author
Series
Blue Ridge legacy volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
391p. 21cm.
Language
English
12) Highland grace
Author
Series
Blue Ridge legacy volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
396p. 21cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, Owsley County is the poorest county in Kentucky and the second poorest in the country. Buildings are crumbling and fields sit vacant, as tobacco farming and coal mining decline. But strong women are finding creative ways to subsist in their hollers in the hills. Cassie Chambers grew up amidst these hollers, and through the women who raised her, she traces her own path out of and back into the Kentucky mountains....
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
447 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Long ago, the legendary trapper known as Preacher took shelter with the Absaroka, and fell in love with a girl called Bird in the Tree. Twenty years later, he rescues a woman and her son from an ambush by the hated Blackfoot. The woman is Birdie, and the valiant young warrior is Hawk That Soars--Preacher's son. Now the greatest fighter on the frontier is about to go to war, to protect a family he never knew he had. Hopelessly outnumbered by vicious...
17) Basket moon
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p.: col. ill.; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
After hearing some men call his father and him hillbillies on his first trip into the nearby town of Hudson, a young boy is not so sure he still wants to become a basket maker.