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Author
Series
Choose your own adventure volume 13
Publisher
Chooseco Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
3) The mountain
Author
Publisher
North South
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The bear knows exactly what the mountain looks like a forest. The sheep, octopus, and ant also know the mountain. It's a meadow! It's surrounded by water...The chamois and snow hare have their opinions too. It seems the mountain looks different to every animal. How can that be? And whose point of view is right?"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Lucy is having a terrible day. She's falling down a mountain. As she passes various characters--a mountain man, a bungeeing duck, and a pile of shuffling bears--she tries to ask for help. But everyone misinterprets her requests. As Lucy gains velocity, the story grows in silliness. Ending eventually in a giant, rolling snowball that lands Lucy safely at a hot-chocolate chalet. No harm done!
Author
Publisher
Aldana Libros / Greystone Kids
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Somewhere in this world there is a small hill, where three girls are taking off their shoes. But many thousands of years ago, a dinosaur saw a brilliant star falling as he stood on that same hill. The ice age comes and goes, castles are built and fall into ruin. The world grows and changes around the hill: trees are planted, a family seeks refuge, and houses are built below it. Now it's time for the girls to put their shoes back on and go home."--...
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"All the fleas want to be king of the mountain and race to the top--until the mountain starts to move! They discover their mountain is a small part of a world that is bigger than the fleas ever imagined. Could it be some things are more important than being first?"--
Author
Series
Fantastic frame volume 4
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When the fantastic frame takes Tiger, Luna, and Chives to New Mexico in 1936, as depicted in Georgia O'Keeffe's painting, Red Hills with the Pedernal, they explore a sacred mountain.
Author
Series
How to catch-- volume 16
Publisher
Sourcebooks Wonderland
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A very clever yeti eludes the traps of children as he hides in the snow-covered mountains he calls home.
Author
Publisher
Clavis
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"It's almost Christmas Eve. Robin wants to celebrate Christmas Day with his grandfather. But Grandpa lives on the other side of the mountain. So, with his backpack and a lot of courage, Robin takes off on an adventure."--Publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Chicken House, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Asha lives in the foothills of the Himalayas. Money is tight and she misses her papa, who works in the city. When he suddenly stops sending his wages, a ruthless moneylender ransacks their home, and her mother talks of leaving. From her den in the mango tree, Asha makes a pact with her best friend, Jeevan, to find her father and make things right. But the journey is dangerous: they must cross the world's highest mountains and face hunger, exhaustion,...
11) Oh, Panda
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Panda tries to follow a butterfly over a mountain, but the slippery, snowy slope makes it difficult to climb.
Author
Series
Unicorn Rescue Society volume 6
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When Professor Fauna spots a unicorn horn mounted on the wall of the Schmoke Brothers' living room, the Unicorn Rescue Society heads to the Himalayan mountains of Northern Pakistan to finally see a unicorn themselves.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Mia Valentina Amore loves valentines. After all, her name means My Valentine. When she wakes up on Valentine's Day, it looks like just another morning in the rickety old Amore house in the Blue Ridge mountains of Appalachia. But over the course of the day, her home is transformed into the House of Love. Mia and her mama festoon the halls, build a gumdrop tree, bake cupcakes, and most importantly, make valentines for all six of her siblings. But when...
Author
Series
Ghost Hunters Adventure Club volume 1
Publisher
Permuted Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Listen up, kid. My name is Dr. Cecil H.H. Mills. I'm the author of this book and many other ones that you might not have heard of. This book is about two idiot wannabe detective-types. Their names are J.J. and Valentine Watts, but I'm not sure if they're actually brothers or not. They make a friend; her name is Trudi de la Rosa. She's a wannabe detective-type too, but honestly, she's less of an idiot than the brothers. The three of them team up to...
16) Palace of stone
Author
Series
Princess Academy trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miri returns to Asland and calls upon all of her knowledge of rhetoric and other useful lessons learned at the Princess Academy when she and the other girls face strong opposition while working for a new, fair charter.
17) A dog's way home
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After a car accident strands them at opposite ends of the Blue Ridge Parkway, eleven-year-old Abby and her beloved sheltie, Tam, overcome months filled with physical and emotional challenges to find their way back to each other.
Author
Series
Survival Scout volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Scout's woe is your gain in the first of the SURVIVAL SCOUT graphic novel series, where Scout endures natural disasters so we don't have to."--
In this adventure-filled travel companion, Scout endures various natural disasters as she treks through the mountains and explains how to survive if ever lost in the wilderness.
Author
Series
Princess Academy trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miri's eager to return to her beloved Mount Eskel after a year at the capital, but the king and queen ask her to first journey to a distant swamp and start her own miniature princess academy for three royal cousins, but once there she must solve a mystery before she can return home.
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