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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When the Great Depression takes almost everything they own, Ellie’s family is forced to leave their home in town and start over in the untamed forests of nearby Echo Mountain. Ellie has found a welcome freedom, and a love of the natural world, in her new life on the mountain. But there is little joy, even for Ellie, as her family struggles with the aftermath of an accident that has left her father in a coma. An accident unfairly blamed on Ellie....
Author
Series
Alexander Cold trilogy volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother, a writer for a geography magazine, to the remote Forbidden Kingdom in the Himalayas to help locate a sacred statue of a golden dragon before it is stolen by a greedy outsider.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old April is delighted when President and Mrs. Hoover build a school near her Madison County, Virginia, home but her family's poverty, grief over the accidental death of her brother, and other problems may mean that April can never learn to read from the wonderful teacher, Miss Vest.
6) Brave horse
Author
Series
Mustang Mountain volume 6
Publisher
Whitecap Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Author
Series
Deltora quest volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Lief, Brad, and Jasmine must find the fifth stone by entering the dark and terrifying realm of the monster Gellik.
Author
Series
Cascade Mountain railroad mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Billy, his best friend Finn, and a girl named Dannie, living in a 1920s camp of railroad workers in the Cascade Mountains, follow clues to try to uncover the relationship of a stolen crate of dynamite with gold taken during an 1893 train robbery.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After the upheaval of the Vietnam War reaches them, twelve-year-old Kia and her Hmong family flee from the mountains of Laos to a refugee camp in Thailand and eventually to the alien world of Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Author
Series
Superstition Mountain mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
c2011
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.
11) Hidden Mountain
Author
Series
Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 186
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Frank and Joe have gone hunting--but instead of sniffing out wildlife, they're out to find the Wilkerson family.
12) Ghost train
Author
Series
Cascade Mountain railroad mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When Billy finds a burlap sack containing a pistol and a cryptic, threatening note, he and his best friends Dannie and Finn avoid rehearsals for the town's historical pageant while trying to learn who holds a grudge and is plotting against the railroad.
13) Heidi
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Childrens Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
15) That Book Woman
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A family living in the Appalachian Mountains in the 1930s gets books to read during the regular visits of the "Book Woman"--a librarian who rides a pack horse through the mountains, lending books to the isolated residents.
16) Dragon road
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In 1939, unable to find regular jobs because of the Great Depression, long-time friends Cal Chin and Barney Young tour the country as members of a Chinese American basketball team.
Author
Series
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
A compilation of three titles from Gary Paulsen's World of adventure series. In three stories--Escape from Fire Mountain; Hook 'Em, Snotty!; and Danger on Midnight River--the characters meet danger at every turn in the great outdoors and learn to face their fears head on. From a forest fire to a raging river to a scary bull named Diablo, the action doesn't stop.
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Geronimo follows clues in a diary all the way to Mouse Everest in search of his old friend Professor von Volt who has mysteriously disappeared.
20) Me and Jack
Author
Publisher
Walker Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
During the Vietnam War, when twelve-year-old Josh and his Air Force recruiter father move to a small town in the mountains of Pennsylvania and get a dog from the local shelter, Josh is forced to stop hanging back and takes on the unfriendly town residents, a mountain, and the meanest boy in school.
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