Catalog Search Results
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Contains the full and unabridged text of Jack London's The call of the wild novel, set in the Klondike gold Rush of Alaska and the Yukon Territory, accompanied by an orientation to the story, a glossary of over 150 words, a location appendix, a character appendix, and a brief biography of London himself.
Author
Series
Sapphire brides volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Emily Carver wants a home where she can put down roots instead of following her gold-hungry father from one mining camp to another. She also longs for tenderness and love, both of which are missing in her life. Yet when she realizes she's losing her heart to the intriguing new man in camp, she fiercely fights her feelings, afraid that love will only result in disappointment and heartache. Caeden Thibault, a young geologist, comes to Montana to catalog...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A diary account of fourteen-year-old Susanna Fairchild's life in 1849, when her father succumbs to gold fever on the way to establish his medical practice in Oregon after losing his wife and money on their steamship journey from New York. Includes a historical note.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1963]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Timber wolves, a Rocky Mountain blizzard, and a mine cave-in are only a few of the perils Frank and Joe Hardy encounter during their search for the principal members of a notorious gang responsible for a payroll robbery. In the old Montana mining camp of Lucky Lode, the young detectives puzzle over a series of mysterious events. A piano-playing ghost haunts the long-abandoned dance hall. Eerie blue lights flash from the hilltop cemetery in the dark...
5) Newsgirl
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1851 San Francisco is booming. 12-year-old Amelia Forrester has just arrived with her family and they are eager to make a new life in Phoenix City. But the mostly male town is not that hospitable to females and Amelia decides she will earn more money as a boy. Cutting her hair and donning a cap, she joins a gang of newsboys, selling Eastern newspapers for a fortune.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
During the Gold Rush, a young Chinese concubine arrived by horse in Idaho gold country, where a white gambler soon won her in a poker game. She became Polly Bemis, the winner's legal, beloved wife. Polly emerged into public view only in 1923, a tiny old woman on horseback, her identity and story known only to a few old-timers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When the wagon carrying the McDougal sisters falls under attack, each sister is picked up by a different man. Anne-Marie, the middle sister, is saved by Creed Walker, a Crow warrior. It's loathing at first sight, but with bandits on their tail and a cache of gold to hide, Creed and Anne-Marie need each other. Will they learn to put aside their differences and trust each other--and God? And can their growing faith turn their lives around?
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1963
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The story of a young boy who lives with his proper Bostonian aunts and their very correct butler. When their money runs perilously low, the boy and the butler stow away on a ship bound for the gold fields of California and many adventures follow.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When newly divorced Maggie Carter inherits a gold mine from the father she never knew, she leaves Houston and travels to the small town of Eureka, Colorado. There, she hopes to solve the mystery of the man who abandoned the family when she was three. In Eureka, Maggie meets people who touch her life in different ways, bitter librarian Cassie Wynock, town mayor Lucille Theriot; and Jameso Clark, whose love-hate relationship with her father intrigues...
10) Shadow state
Author
Series
Jack Ryan Jr. novel volume 12
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Jack Ryan, Jr. finds himself cut off from his comrades at The Campus just when he needs them most. He's smack dab in the middle of an international conspiracy, and this may be too much for even him to handle"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After budget cuts threaten the art and music programs at Ella Mentry School, as well as some services, groundskeeper Burke finds gold and "gilver" on the playground, causing a modern-day gold rush.
13) Rumpelstiltskin
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Caldecott honor book: 1987.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Relates the tale of Rumpelstiltskin's childhood and youth, explaining why his name is so important, how he is able to spin straw into gold, and why a first-born child is his reward for helping the miller's daughter-turned-queen.
Author
Series
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Here are only a few of the wonderful, strange, and mysterious elements in this breathtaking visit to the Kingdoms and Empires: A very proper girl named Lillian Velvet, living a very lonely life with a nasty Grandmother. A jar of coins, each with the power to take Lillian on a journey to a different time and place...and also to grant a single wish. A small boy in a barn about to be crushed to death by a load of hay. A family, each member in mortal...
17) Almost a bride
Author
Series
Bride ships volume 4
Publisher
Northern Lights Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Longing to find true love, Kate Millington arrives in British Columbia on a bride ship. With countless men waiting to snag a bride, Kate has no trouble getting engaged. It's staying engaged that's the problem. After traveling to the remote mining town of Williamsville to marry her newest fiancé, she finds herself single again. As the prosperous owner of a gold mine, Zeke Hart has everything he's ever wanted except for a wife. At Kate's arrival,...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In 1875, Kathryn Walsh arrives in a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas where she relaunches her uncle's newspaper, pitting herself against the town's most powerful men until she finds an ally in the local saloon owner who believes in what she stands for.
Author
Series
Sapphire brides volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
While visiting Helena, Montana, with her father, Count Von Bergen, Phoebe finds herself attracted to lapidary Ian Harper.
20) Down the Yukon
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In the wake of Dawson City's Great Fire of 1899, sixteen-year-old Jason and his girlfriend Jamie canoe the Yukon River across Alaska in an epic race from Canada's Klondike to the new gold fields at Cape Nome.