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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.
2) Heidi
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English
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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. Includes illustrated notes throughout the text explaining the historical backround of the story.
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Puffin Books
Pub. Date
c1996
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Español
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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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Nameless, Kentucky, in 1969 is a hardscrabble community. RubyLyn is luckier than some. Her God-fearing uncle, Gunnar, has a short fuse and high expectations, but he's given her a good home ever since she was orphaned at the age of five. Yet now, a month shy of her sixteenth birthday, RubyLyn itches for more. Maybe it's something to do with the paper fortunetellers RubyLyn has been making for the townsfolk. Or perhaps it's because of Rainey Ford, an...
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"The Newbery Award, National Book Award, and Boston Globe-Horn Book Award-winning beloved classic is now in a fiftieth anniversary collector's edition. Mayo Cornelius Higgins sits on his gleaming, forty-foot steel pole, towering over his home on Sarah's Mountain. Stretched before him are rolling hills and shady valleys. But behind him lie the wounds of strip mining, including a mountain of rubble that may one day fall and bury his home. M.C. dreams...
8) Scouts
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English
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The summer before seventh grade, five best friends sneak out to watch a meteor shower, but soon find themselves on the run from a violent mountain clan.
Annie, Beans, Rocky, and Fynn are the Scouts--best friends who do everything together. It's 1985, and the summer before seventh grade is just beginning. The Scouts decide to secretly climb Old Man Basinger's silo to watch a meteor shower, and when one meteor seems to crash nearby, the Scouts know...
11) The itch book
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Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
Relates what happens on a hot day in the Ozarks when the heat makes everyone itch.
13) Carl's nose
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Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Carl the weather dog, famous for his accurate prediction of bad weather, has to find a new sense of purpose when the climate in his mountain town of Grimsville changes from storms to sunshine.
14) Mountain wedding
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Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
The children from two mountain families about to be joined in a wedding change their minds about each other only after all of them together cooperate in a rescue.
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