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THE GREATEST WESTERN WRITER OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Smoke Jensen never wanted to kill, but fate had other plans, and the Mountain Man has left plenty of blood, tears and fury in his wake. Angus MacDougal, the father of one of Smoke's victims, wants revenge. Riding up to Big Rock, Colorado, MacDougal has decided that killing Smoke won't be enough. He intends to bring him back to Pueblo and hang him before a crowd. It's a bloodthirsty plan that...
Smoke Jensen never wanted to kill, but fate had other plans, and the Mountain Man has left plenty of blood, tears and fury in his wake. Angus MacDougal, the father of one of Smoke's victims, wants revenge. Riding up to Big Rock, Colorado, MacDougal has decided that killing Smoke won't be enough. He intends to bring him back to Pueblo and hang him before a crowd. It's a bloodthirsty plan that...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"After five years in hiding from their murderous father, the day Kristen and Ryan McIntyre have been dreading has arrived: Boyd McIntyre, head of a Los Angeles crime family, has at last tracked his kids to a small Montana town and is minutes away from kidnapping them. They barely escape in a small plane, but gunfire hits the fuel line. The pilot, a man who has been raising them as his own, manages to crash land in the middle of the Montana wilderness....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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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.
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Mountaineers Books
Pub. Date
2001.
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157 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
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English
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-- Features many new charts and illustrations. -- New contact information for purchasing maps in the U.S. and Canada. This tried-and-true guide teaches practical skills for navigating in the wilderness: reading maps; determining "true" directions following bearings, backbearings, and baselines; using nature as a guide; teaching kids to "stay found"; and coping if you really are lost.
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Following the death of his younger brother in Europe, journalist John Easley is determined to find meaning in his loss. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Helen, he heads north to investigate the Japanese invasion of Alaska's Aleutian Islands, a story censored by the U.S. government. While John is accompanying a crew on a bombing run, his plane is shot down over the island of Attu. He survives only to find himself exposed to a harsh and unforgiving...
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Discovery Education
Pub. Date
2011
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1 videodisc (ca. 42 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Survivalist Bear Grylls lands in the jungles of Vietnam to highlight the dangers soldiers faced during the Vietnam War, including spitting cobras, leeches, and disease-carrying mosquitoes. The program explains how to build a fire in the midst of extreme humidity as well as points out locations to find food and water. NOTE: Contains sensitive material. Please preview before showing it to students.
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Warriors a vision of shadows volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"The warrior cat Clans have enjoyed many moons of peace and prosperity--but a dark season approaches, and those days will soon be over. Guided by a mysterious vision, the young apprentice Alderpaw of ThunderClan must go on a dangerous journey ... a journey that may be the Clans' only hope."--
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Winner of the Minnesota Book Award and a 2022 Great Group Reads Selection
"The Barrens grabbed me from the opening pages and never let go."—Michael Punke, author of The Revenant
Two young women attending college decide to have a summer adventure canoeing the rapids-strewn Thelon River that runs 450 miles through the uninhabited Barren Lands of subarctic Canada. Holly made the trip once before with a group of skilled...
"The Barrens grabbed me from the opening pages and never let go."—Michael Punke, author of The Revenant
Two young women attending college decide to have a summer adventure canoeing the rapids-strewn Thelon River that runs 450 miles through the uninhabited Barren Lands of subarctic Canada. Holly made the trip once before with a group of skilled...
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Broadway Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2010.
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330 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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On a stormy winter night, two strangers wait for a flight at the Salt Lake City airport. Ashley Knox is an attractive, successful writer, who is flying East for her much anticipated wedding. Dr. Ben Payne has just wrapped up a medical conference and is also eager to get back East for a slate of surgeries he has scheduled for the following day. When the last outgoing flight is cancelled due to a broken de-icer and a forthcoming storm, Ben finds a charter...
11) Shelter
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Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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"A new installment in the A True Book series focusing on Survival Skills"--
"Learn basic survival skills and connect with nature!Knowing how to build a safe shelter in any environment is a skill that every outdoor adventurer needs. Did you know that a shelter can be made from sticks and leaves? Or that it can even be made from snow? Learn all this and more in Shelter - a book that gives kids the confidence they need to get outside and explore.ABOUT...
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
This season, Marty, Tom, Eustace, Rich, Kyle, and new mountain man Morgan are preparing early for the long winter ahead. They2re fortifying their homesteads and stocking up on supplies, but as global weather patterns continue to change and wreak havoc around the world, the men will be forced to face the chaos head-on and, if they are to survive, they too will have to adapt or die.
16) Northwind
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Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
246 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When sickness decimates his fishing village, an orphan named Leif flees north in a cedar canoe, journeying along a brutal but beautiful coastline.
18) Something wilder
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Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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x, 366 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Growing up the daughter of notorious treasure hunter and absentee father Duke Wilder left Lily without much patience for the profession . . . or much money in the bank. But Lily is nothing if not resourceful, and now uses Duke's coveted hand-drawn maps to guide tourists on fake treasure hunts through the treacherous and storied red rock canyons of Utah. It pays the bills but doesn't leave enough to fulfill her dream of buying back the beloved ranch...
19) Haven: a novel
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
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vii, 257 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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In this beautiful story of adventure and survival from the New York Times bestselling author of Room, three men vow to leave the world behind them as they set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them. In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks--young Trian and old Cormac--he rows down the river Shannon...
20) The vaster wilds
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"Woman's colonial narrative, North America. Fiction"--
"A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her. Lauren Groff's new novel is at once a thrilling adventure...
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