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Wilderness series (Sara Donati) volume 1
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In December 1792, Elizabeth Middleton moves to join her family in the mountains of New York. There she meets Nathaniel Bonner, known to the Mohawk people as Between-Two-Lives. Elizabeth is determined to provide schooling for all the village children, but runs into resistance from her own family, as well as from local slave owners. The tale of Elizabeth and Nathaniel is intertwined with the history of the Mohawk nation and the history of American...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
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"A young wolf cub, separated from his pack, journeys 1000 miles across the Pacific Northwest, dealing with forest fires, hunters, highways, and hunger before finding a new home. Based on the true story of a wolf called OR-7"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
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"For [the killer whale] Vega and her family, salmon is life. And Vega is learning to be a salmon finder, preparing for the day when she will be her family's matriarch. But then she and her brother Deneb are separated from their pod when a devastating earthquake and tsunami render the seascape unrecognizable. Vega must use every skill she has to lead her brother back to their family. The young orcas face a shark attack, hunger, the deep ocean, and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
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"Young colt Sky was born with the urge to run. Alongside his band, he moves across the range searching for fresh water and abundant grazing. But humans have begun to encroach on Sky’s homelands. With fewer resources to share, Sky knows that he must leave if his family is to survive. He hopes that one day, he’ll be strong and brave enough to return and challenge the stallion to lead the herd. Being a lone wild horse in a vast landscape is not...
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2024.
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Seb is pretty excited about his brand new fishing pole for the family's camping and fishing trip in Wyoming's Wind River Range. While fly fishing the Sweetwater River, Sami and Seb become trapped by a flash flood and are rescued by a park ranger. But a raging river separates them from their parents.
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2024.
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Seb is enjoying turkey hunting in the beautiful Texas Hill Country. But he really wants to explore some of the local caves. When a storm forces him, Carlos, and Rocky into one, they see bats, stalactites, and stalagmites. But they become disoriented when they drop their flashlight and have to use all their skills to find a way out.
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2024.
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While hunting doves in North Carolina, Rocky becomes ill. Carlos and Kathleen stay in camp with him while Sami and Seb continue their hunt. When a stream bank gives way and Seb is injured in a fall, Sami manages to get him up out of the stream bed but then has to get him back to camp.
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2024.
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While hunting moose in Alaska, Sami and her stepmother Kathleen become lost in the woods. They try to retrace their steps but can't find the trail. When a moose walks into their path they freeze, because moose are dangerous. Suddenly Rocky bursts out of the trees, frightens the moose away, and leads Sami and Kathleen back toward the blind.
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2024.
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Sami's family is finally off on a long-planned duck hunting trip in the Boundary Waters. The first few days of hunting are perfect. And then the bad weather rolls in. Caught on the lake, they are almost to shore when Seb and Kathleen's canoe capsizes. Sami and Carlos help right the canoe and the family continues toward shore.
11) Wolverine
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Pub. Date
2018
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Hunted? In the harsh wilderness of the Rocky Mountains, every day presents a new challenge. Nate King and his family have survived by overcoming those challenges, one by one. But in the new valley that is their home, they face perils they've never before known. Some of the most vicious predators on the continent are stalking the Kings and their friends. Nate has gone up against grizzlies, mountain lions, and enraged buffalo, but he's never battled...
12) Winterkill
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Wilderness series (David Thompson) volume 15
Pub. Date
2009
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Savage and dangerous, the unexplored Rockies hid threats that could kill even the most experienced mountain men. For mountain man Nathaniel King, helping stranded travelers had become common. But when he takes in a pair of strangers who have lost their way, his kindness is repaid with vile treachery.
13) Wolf Pack
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Wilderness series (David Thompson) volume 20
Pub. Date
2010
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Mountain man Nathaniel King and other settlers in the Rockies are forever on the lookout for possible dangers, and always ready to match death with death. But when a marauding band of killers and thieves kidnaps his wife and children, Nate has finally run into enemies who've pushed his skill and cunning to the limit.
14) Apache Blood
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Wilderness series (David Thompson) volume 12
Pub. Date
2009
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"Apache Blood" Nate and his young family journey to the southern Rockies, only to have the child and woman taken by the Apache. With the help of his friend Shakespeare McNair, Nate would save his loved ones or die trying.
15) The high Sierra
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Examines the geography, geology, vegetation and wildlife of the Sierra Nevada mountain region of California and Nevada.
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Wilderness series (Sara Donati) volume 6
Pub. Date
[2010]
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The spring of 1824 is a challenging one for the inhabitants of Paradise N.Y. when a flood devastates the village. But for Nathaniel and Elizabeth Bonner, it's also a time of reunion as their children return from far-off places, a childhood friendship evolves into a romance, and family secrets threaten heart and home.
17) The bayous
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Surveys the geology, geography, wildlife and vegetation of the bayous of Louisiana.
19) Queen of swords
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Wilderness series (Sara Donati) volume 5
Pub. Date
c2006
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It is the late summer of 1814, and Hannah Bonner and her half brother Luke have spent more than a year searching the islands of the Caribbean for Luke’s wife and the man who abducted her. But Jennet’s rescue, so long in coming, is not the resolution they’d hoped for. In the spring she had given birth to Luke’s son, and in the summer Jennet had found herself compelled to surrender the infant to a stranger in the hope of keeping...
20) White Fang
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
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Set during the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon Territory, London's 1906 story chronicles the story of a half-dog, half-wolf beast in the wild. As opposed to his famous Call of the Wild tale of a domestic dog reverting to the wild, White Fang depicts a wild animal eventually becoming domesticated. It is a gripping tale told from the wolf's point of view about the hard life in the frozen wilds of the north. The story concludes with White Fang returning...