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"Oklahoma 1909. Eleven-year-old Olive Augusta Radley knows that her stepfather doesn't have good intentions toward the two Choctaw girls boarded in their home as wards. When the older girl disappears, Ollie flees to the woods, taking six-year-old Nessa with her. Together they begin a perilous journey to the rugged Winding Stair Mountains, the notorious territory of outlaws, treasure hunters, and desperate men. Along the way, Ollie and Nessa form an...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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Anna Pigeon has fled New York and her memories to find work as a ranger in the country's national parks. In the remote backcountry of West Texas, however, she discovers murder and violence. Fellow park ranger Sheila Drury is mysteriously killed, presumably by a mountain lion. But the deep claw marks Anna finds across Drury's throat and the paw prints surrounding the body are too perfect to be real.
3) Boar Island
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"Anna Pigeon, in her career as a National Park Service Ranger, has had to deal with all manner of crimes and misdemeanors, but cyber-bullying and stalking is a new one. The target is Elizabeth, the adopted teenage daughter of her friend Heath Jarrod. Elizabeth is driven to despair by the disgusting rumors spreading online and bullying texts. Until, one day, Heath finds her daughter Elizabeth in the midst of an unsuccessful suicide attempt. And then...
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2010
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Recovering from recent emotional trauma, National Park Service ranger Anna Pigeon goes to New Orleans to visit her friend, Geneva, only to become the target of a dark curse, prompting her to investigate what it has to do with a fugitive mother accused of killing her family.
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"Anna Pigeon, a ranger for the U.S. Park Services, sets off on vacation-- an autumn canoe trip in the to the Iron Range in upstate Minnesota. With Anna is her friend Heath, a paraplegic; Heath's fifteen-year-old daughter, Elizabeth; Leah, a wealthy designer of outdoor equipment; and her daughter, Katie, who is thirteen. For Heath and Leah, this is a shakedown cruise to test a new cutting edge line of camping equipment. The equipment, designed by Leah,...
8) Deep South
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
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Anna takes on a position as district park ranger of the Mississippi Natchez Trace Parkway. Once there she faces an angry staff. But she pushes that difficulty aside when she stumbles over the body of a teenage girl, shrouded in a hood reminiscent of the KKK.
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Park ranger Anna Pigeon investigates the crash of a drug-interdiction plane on an isolated Georgia island. Was it an accident or sabotage that downed the plane, killing both the pilot and his passenger? It's up to Anna and her crew to solve the mystery.
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Where the wild hearts are volume 3
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Sourcebooks Casablanca, an imprint of Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Clay Stevens desperately wants to reclaim his grandfather's land, using the latest techniques to bring water to the arid landscape. The last thing he needs is wild wolves on his ranch--even if they are brought there by feisty and determined conservation officer Lacey Montgomery. Lacey is convinced the ranchers and the lobos can co-exist, until Clay's nephew and his friends cause a landslide that injures some rare Mexican wolf pups and Lacey gets...
11) Ill wind
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Berkley Books
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2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
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Park ranger Anna Pigeon probes the murder of fellow ranger Stacey Meyers in the Mesa Verde National Park. Meyers was investigating the sabotage of equipment used in installing a water pipe through ancient Indian grounds. The construction is opposed by many people.
13) High country
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
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Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2009, ©1998
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English
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A friend of park ranger Anna Pigeon has been injured while exploring a cave in New Mexico's Carlsbad Cavern Park. Before the woman can be pulled to safety, she sends for Anna. Only one problem: a crushing fear of confined spaces has kept Anna out in the open her whole life. Reissue.
15) Winter study
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Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 14
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Putnam
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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Visiting an isolated Lake Superior isle to study wolf behavior, ranger Anna Pigeon joins a scientific group that subsequently discovers unusual DNA evidence suggesting that a giant and dangerous wolf hybrid has been introduced by an unknown source.
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St. Martin's Griffin
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2024.
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English
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"At thirty-three, Maren Laughlin's just turned down her boyfriend's proposal, walked away from her decade-long position as a park ranger, and returned to her childhood playground in Northern Wisconsin to accept her inheritance: a decrepit waterfront bait shop. After a lifetime of letting things happen to her, she's ready to start making her own moves, even if everyone else thinks she's making the wrong ones. Well, not everyone-at least the local heartstopper...
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