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1) Heidi
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The beloved story of Heidi, the little girl who scrambles through mountain meadows with the goats, brings joy to a blind grandmother, helps a friend learn to walk again, and restores hope and love to a grandfather. Adapted for young children Heidi's age.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
To unify her family, Ave Maria must harness the power of love and its abiding truth in this lyrical and heartfelt novel, the third installment of the New York Times bestselling Big Stone Gap series
“Trigiani can make you laugh in one sentence then break your heart in the next.”—Mississippi Clarion-Ledger
Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney has never been a devotee of tarot cards or...
“Trigiani can make you laugh in one sentence then break your heart in the next.”—Mississippi Clarion-Ledger
Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney has never been a devotee of tarot cards or...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTELLER • Ave Maria starts a new chapter in this wise, powerful, and humorous novel, the fourth book in the beloved Big Stone Gap series
“[Adriana Trigiani is] one of the reigning queens of women’s fiction.”—USA Today
Nestled in the lush Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the town of Big Stone Gap has been home for Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney and her...
“[Adriana Trigiani is] one of the reigning queens of women’s fiction.”—USA Today
Nestled in the lush Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the town of Big Stone Gap has been home for Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney and her...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Ave Maria must decide between old love and new adventures in this enthralling second novel in the beloved Big Stone Gap series
“Heartwarming . . . Everything that really matters is here: humor, romance, wisdom, and drama.”—The Dallas Morning News
Eight years have passed since Ave Maria Mulligan married Jack Mac, moved up into the hills, and...
“Heartwarming . . . Everything that really matters is here: humor, romance, wisdom, and drama.”—The Dallas Morning News
Eight years have passed since Ave Maria Mulligan married Jack Mac, moved up into the hills, and...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The first novel in the beloved Big Stone Gap series, now a major motion picture written and directed by Adriana Trigiani, starring Ashley Judd, Patrick Wilson, Whoopi Goldberg, John Benjamin Hickey, Jane Krakowski, Anthony LaPaglia, and Jenna Elfman
This edition features behind-the-scenes bonus material from the film—including photos, excerpts from the script, and favorite recipes...
This edition features behind-the-scenes bonus material from the film—including photos, excerpts from the script, and favorite recipes...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Somewhere in his past, Smoke Jensen crossed paths with a lowlife who has now built himself a little kingdom as a frontier sheriff. When Smoke trusts his gravely injured comrade to the care of the town's doctor, the last thing he expects is an act of betrayal--and a call for revenge. Reissue.
Author
Series
Mountain man volume 6
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
The Greatest Western Writer Of The 21st Century
When The Bullets Start To Fly
Smoke Jensen sat in a cave and boiled the last of his coffee. He figured he was in Idaho-somewhere south of Montpelier-but he was certain about only two things: he was cold and he was being hunted by a small army of men. Smoke knew why he was cold-it was winter. He just didn't have a clear idea of why anyone was after him.
He was soon to find out that he'd unwittingly...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Big Max Higgins ran the outlaw town of Hell's Creek up in the north Montana Rockies ... and he decided to include the nearby town of Barlow in his cutthroat operation. What he didn't know was that Smoke Jensen was there with his wife, visiting relatives.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Long before there was a mountain man called Preacher, a young adventurer set off with a team of fur traders from St. Louis for the time of his life. On a wild frontier, he sought a fortune. Instead, he found blood, betrayal, and the beginning of a legend. Armed only with a knife, surrounded by a fierce Blackfoot war party, the young man was forced to kill a warrior chief in an act of audacious courage. But when a grizzly bear attack left him half-dead,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale Houses
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Raised in the Kentucky mountains, Laura "Copper" Grace is faced with the prospects of losing everything she loves when her stepmother threatens to send her away to boarding school to become a lady, in a heartwarming historical novel set in the 1880s.
11) Chill factor
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Language
English
Description
Lilly Martin is racing from an oncoming blizzard when she skids into a hiker. Taking the injured man to a remote cabin, she discovers he is the handsome but shady Ben Tierney, with whom she flirted during the previous summer. Five women have recently disappeared from the area, and Ben is the primary suspect; but as the storm intensifies and the roads become impassable, Lilly finds herself with nowhere to go and only Ben to keep her company.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
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.
15) Gap Creek
Author
Series
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
A novel on the harsh life in the Appalachian Mountains at the turn of the century. The heroine is Julie Harmon whose work load includes hauling water, butchering a hog, rendering lard, plucking a turkey, baking and preserving--all described in detail.
16) Dovey Coe
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When accused of murder in her North Carolina mountain town in 1928, Dovey Coe, a stronged-willed twelve-year-old girl, comes to a new understanding of others, including her deaf brother.
17) Princess Academy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
While attending a strict academy for potential princesses with the other girls from her mountain village, fourteen-year-old Miri discovers unexpected talents and connections to her homeland.
Author
Series
Mountain man volume 50
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
While keeping the peace in Salt Lick, Texas, Smoke Jensen is faced with a twenty-man gang of trigger-happy thieves who have set their sights on this town during a monstrous blizzard, and must rally the townspeople to defend their lives and land from bothmother nature and man's worst nature.
Author
Publisher
Reading Essentials
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 38
Language
English
Formats
Description
An elaborate and moving coming-of-age story about Eugene Gant, a restless and energetic character whose passion to experience life takes him from his small, rural hometown in North Carolina to Harvard University and the city of Boston. The novel's pattern is artfully simple--a small town, a large family, high school and college--yet the characters are monumental in their graphic individuality and personality.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
There were some who knew Smoke Jensen as a hero...and there were others who believed the dark side of the legend that he was an outlaw who'd killed over 300 men. But when Smoke wakes up with a gut-wrenching headache in a New Mexico jail cell, he feels as helpless as a newly whelped cougar cub with a lease on his life shorter than the blink of an eye. Somehow, Smoke's got to make it out and escape the hid-hungry lynch mob that's after him for a murder...