Title search results
Showing 1 - 20 of 75 items
Mocha Dick: the legend and fury
By Brian Heinz, Randall Enos. 2014
The original great white whale, first spied off the coast of Chile in 1810, becomes a prime target for whalers…
as he thrashes about the Pacific and achieves legendary status. For grades 2-4. 2014Trail to Fort Smith: a Ralph Compton novel
By Ralph Compton, Dusty Richards. 2004
Saddle partners Hamp and Clint will never make it to Fort Smith at this rate. First Clint kills a card…
shark and Hamp has to marry a girl to get Clint sprung from jail. Then Clint shoots a rancher. Strong language. 2004Warriors: power of three (Warriors: Power of Three Ser.)
By Erin Hunter. 2010
In a troubled time for the Four Clans, three young cats of ThunderClan--Hollypaw, Jaypaw, and Lionpaw--become apprentices. During their training…
as warriors they have many adventures, learn a shocking secret, and discover their true destiny. Complete series of six books. For grades 4-7. 2009The morgue and me
By John C. Ford. 2009
Eighteen-year-old Christopher Newell gets a summer job at the morgue hoping to learn about forensic pathology for his future career…
as a spy. But when examining a corpse leads Christopher to suspect a police cover-up, he investigates the case himself. Some strong language. For senior high readers. 2009A feast of freedom: tasty tidbits from the City Tavern
By Walter Staib, Jennifer Fox, Fernando Juarez. 2010
Oyster moon
By Margaret Meacham. 1996
Set in 1885 on Maryland's eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay, a fourteen-year-old girl rescues her twin brother from the…
clutches of the cruel captain of an oyster dredge during the height of the Oyster Wars. For grades 4-7Serafina's stories
By Rudolfo Anaya, Rudolfo A Anaya. 2004
Larry gets lost in Seattle (Larry gets lost)
By Robert Schwartz, John Skewes, Michael Mullin. 2007
Pete and his dog Larry are about to take a trip to Seattle, but there's so much to see that…
Larry gets distracted and finds himself lost in the Emerald City. Join Pete as he looks for his missing friend around the Space Needle, Pike Place Market, and Pioneer Square. For preschool-grade 2Shoshoni pony
By Wayne Cornell, Carol Lynn MacGregor, Dick Lee. 2003
Horses changed the way Native Americans lived and worked. This is the story of how the Shoshoni Indians, who lived…
in the area that would later become Idaho, became the first in the Northwest to get horses and why these amimals were so important to Shoshoni and their culture. For grades 5-8From slave to soldier: based on a true Civil War story (Ready-to-Read)
By Deborah Hopkinson, Brian Floca. 2005
Tennessee, Civil War. Young Johnny hates being a slave and chooses freedom by joining the Union Army. Johnny proves his…
bravery by driving the mule team and supply wagon by himself at night to bring food to hungry soldiers. Short chapter book. For grades 2-4. 2005Castle Barebane
By Joan Aiken. 1976
1880s. Valla Montgomery leaves her job and fiancé in New York City when her half-brother Nils Hansen asks her to…
care for his children in England. Valla slowly discovers the awful truth about her deceitful brother and his association with a serial murderer. For senior high and older readers. 1976The dry divide
By Ralph Moody. 1994
In this sequel to Shaking the Nickel Bush (DB 54466), Ralph Moody is twenty in 1919 when he lands in…
Nebraska without any money. Three months later he owns eight teams of horses and falls in love. 1963Soon be free (Companion To: Steal Away Home)
By Lois Ruby, Jean-Francois Podevin. 2000
Parallel stories about Dana, a modern teenager, investigating a mystery involving the old Kansas house that her parents run as…
a bed-and-breakfast, and James, a Quaker youth living in that same house in 1857, trying to help some fugitive slaves to freedom. Sequel to Steal Away Home (DB 41158). For grades 3-6. 2000The undying West: a chronicle of Montana's Camas Prairie
By Carlene Cross. 1999
Montana mirage
By J. T Flynn, J. T. Flynn, Lynn Arensmeyer. 1998
Montana Mirage combines the conflict of man versus nature with that of man versus man in a unique fusion of…
adventure, intrigue and character study. The search for a mountain lion that has preyed upon a small child and ranch cattle pits Headwaters County Sheriff Ben Green and District Attorney Jefferson Kirk against the animal rights group, Animals Forever. Mystery and suspense intensify with the discovery of another bodyThe West of Owen Wister: selected short stories
By Owen Wister. 1972
Six stories by author of The Virginian (DB 36421) depicting cowboys, soldiers, Indians, and priests in various geographic settings. Includes…
Wister's first published western, "Hank's Woman" (1892), as well as "Little Big Horn Medicine," "The Second Missouri Compromise," and "Padre Ignazio." 1972 introduction by Robert L. Hough. 1892Adventures in the West: stories for young readers
By Eric Melvin Reed, Susanne George-Bloomfield. 2007
Twenty-six short western adventure stories originally published in two children's magazines, Youth's Companion and St. Nicholas, written between the 1890s…
and World War I. Includes "The Buffalo Hunt," "Our First Well in Nebraska," and "Sister Anne and the Cowboy," among others. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2007The way West (Western saga ; #2)
By A. B. Guthrie Jr.. 2002
1840s. Dick Summers has been to Oregon before, but now that his wife has died he decides to return. He…
will guide a group of men and women from Missouri on the difficult journey along the Oregon Trail. Sequel to The Big Sky (RC 37502). Pulitzer Prize. 1949Black Range tales
By James A McKenna. 2002
First published in 1936, Black Range Tales has become one of the classics of southwest Americana. In his inimitable style,…
"Uncle Jimmie" tells of prospecting, Indian fights, exploration, town life and all the characters from the early days of the Black Range, the Mogollons, and the rest of the Gila Country of southwest New Mexico. The result is alternately humorous, poignant, amazing or insightful; a singular look at the times. And most of all these tales are true, for by golly, James A. McKenna was thereChesapeake Bay walk
By David Owen Bell. 1998
The author takes young children and their parents on a shoreline journey where they can find soft-bellied bullies, birds once…
hunted for their feathers, crabs older than dinosaurs, "bald" five-year-olds, and living prehistoric creatures made of water. For preschool to grade 2. Unrated