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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"--
3) Blood truce
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Wilderness series (David Thompson) volume 16
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When a deadly dispute among rival Indian tribes explodes into a bloody war, Nate has to make peace between the enemies-or his young family will be the first to lose their scalps.
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Wilderness series (David Thompson) volume 62
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When Evelyn King and a family of Nansusequas Indians fail to return from a buffalo hunt, mountain man Nate King and his companion Shakespeare McNair set out to find them. Soon they begin to hear worrying tales of a band of white scalp hunters who have been killing and scalping every Indian they come across. But Evelyn and the Nansusequas turn up safe and sound after being rescued by freight owner Jeremiah Blunt. Nate is now in the man's debt — one...
5) Trackdown
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Wilderness series (David Thompson) volume 34
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THE TRAIL TO HELL: Life in the wilderness of the Rockies is filled with dangers, some natural, some man-made. Any man who hopes to survive there soon has to learn to face these dangers and battle them head on. That's a lesson frontiersman Nate King learned long ago. So when a savage war party abducts his wife and daughter, Nate isn't about to surrender to despair. No matter where the search takes him, he will bring his family home. Even when the trail...
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Wilderness volume 35
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Mountain Maniac: For frontiersman Nate King, the Rockies are the last untamed wilderness, a place of magnificent beauty and unparalleled danger, a place to respect and call home. He and his family begin a trek through this harsh terrain with no wish but to see their cabin at journey's end. But a chance encounter with a deranged settler leads Nate to the startling discovery that the man has big plans for this wild land. Rejected by the army, William...
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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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Wilderness series (David Thompson) volume 9
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Tough mountain men, proud Indians, and an America that was wild and free.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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Twins Harley and Rhiannon Hummingbird travel from their Oklahoma home to their grandparents' new cabin in northern Wisconsin where they not only learn about the best techniques in having a successful day fishing, but also about teamwork and persistence.
10) Blood feud
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Wilderness series (David Thompson) volume 26
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When a clan of travelers from the hill country back East arrive at Nate King's part of the mountain, Nate is more than willing to lend a hand and show them some hospitality. He has no way of knowing that this clan is used to fighting and killing for what they want.
11) Trophy buck
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Excited to go on his first family hunting trip, twelve-year-old Rodney learns Cherokee traditions, gun safety, and patience.
12) Blood kin
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Wilderness series (David Thompson) volume 31
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Mountain man Zach King has survived countless dangers, but nothing prepares him for the danger he faces when he travels with his fiance to meet her family in St. Louis. As a half-breed, Zach's used to being shunned. But he doesn't know just how far his beloved's family will go to "protect" her from marrying Zach
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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As part of his thirteenth birthday Jimmy Benge is spending a week ice fishing with his friend, Ryan, in northern Minnesota at his Cherokee family's lakeside home; one day they get permission to go out further on the lake to try for Northern pike, and Jimmy catches a beauty--but a sudden snow squall turns the situation dangerous and as the boys pack up to make their way back, Uncle Kenny's ATV flips over and he is injured, and it is up to the boys...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Eleven-year-old Cherokee Zach Feather is going on his first pheasant hunting trip in Oklahoma with his parents, his first ever bird dog (Koda), and his grandfather's shotgun; but when the hunt gets started he discovers that there is a lot more to hunting than he realized and he needs to learn patience--if he survives his encounter with a very annoyed rattlesnake.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Thirteen-year-old Juniper travels to Alaska to take part in a bowhunt in the Tongass National Forest, and when she ends up on the hunt with local boy Ben they both have to learn to work together and respect each other's skills if they want to succeed.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Twelve-year-old Coral is excited to be going on an October elk hunt with her father in the Colorado mountains, but when he announces that he is getting remarried she is upset and angry with him--but when a big storm rolls in and her father is injured by his skittish horse she has to put aside her feelings and fears and concentrate on making it down the mountain safely.
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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...
18) Hammer to fall
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Joe Wilderness novels volume 3
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"It's London, the swinging sixties, and by all rights MI6 spy Joe Wilderness should be having as good a time as James Bond. Alas, his postings are usually rather unglamorous, but thankfully he has a knack for doing well for himself even in unpromising situations. In divided Berlin, he smuggled coffee into the East, a rather profitable racket until he had to transport something else-a spy. After an aborted mission on Berlin's famous "Bridge of Spies,"...
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Wilderness series (David Thompson) volume 29
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HUNTER OR THE HUNTED? As mountain man Nate King and his family struggle to live free in the untamed country of frontier America, Nate and his neighbors have begun to find tracks and other signs of a being the Indians known as the "Old Ones, " a half-man, half-breed creature that preys on humans and kills simply for the sake of killing.