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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Description
"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...
2) The Big Burn
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Three teenagers battle the flames of the Big Burn of 1910, one of the century's biggest wildfires.
3) Cougars on the cliff: one man's pioneering quest to understand the mythical mountain lion, a memoir
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Maurice Hornocker is recognized worldwide as the first scientist to unravel the secrets of America's most enigmatic predator-the mountain lion. This is a gripping account of the never-before-told adventures, challenges, and controversies surrounding hisgroundbreaking study of cougars in the remote reaches of the Idaho Primitive Area"--
Author
Series
Sisters of Bethlehem Springs volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Cleo Arlington dresses like a cowboy, is fearless and fun-loving, and can ride, rope, and wrangle a horse as well as any man. In 1916, however, those talents aren't what most young women aspire to. But Cleo isn't most women. Twenty-nine years old and single, Cleo loves life on her father's Idaho ranch. Still, she hopes someday to marry and have children. Enter Sherwood Statham, an English aristocrat whose father has sentenced him to a year of work...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Cómo una educación puede salvar una vida. "Podéis llamarlo transformación. Metamorfosis. Falsedad. Traición. Yo lo llamo una educación." Nacida en las montañas de Idaho, Tara Westover ha crecido en armonía con una naturaleza grandiosa y doblegada a las leyes que establece su padre, un mormón fundamentalista convencido de que el final del mundo es inminente. Ni Tara ni sus hermanos van a la escuela o acuden al médico cuando enferman. Todos...
Author
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Skier and debut author Ayja Bounous explores threats to the winters and watershed in the face of climate change and the far-reaching impacts of a diminishing snowpack on the American West--not only from ecological and economic perspectives, but also in regard to emotional and psychological health, as she realizes how deeply her personal relationships are tied to the snow-covered mountains of Utah's Wasatch range."--provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Wayward Pines, Idaho, is quintessential small-town America--or so it seems. Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrives in search of two missing federal agents, yet soon is facing much more than he bargained for. After a violent accident lands him in the hospital, Ethan comes to with no ID and no cell phone. The medical staff seems friendly enough, but something feels off. As the days pass, Ethan's investigation into his colleagues' disappearance turns...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire of August, 1910, and Teddy Roosevelt's pioneering conservation efforts that helped turn public opinion permanently in favor of the forests, though it changed the mission of the forest service with consequences felt in the fires of today.
Author
Series
Call of the Rockies volume 3
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Determined to prove her worth, Meksem fiercely fought to earn her place among the warriors in her Nez Perce camp. When her half-sister is captured by an enemy tribe, she refuses to trust the rescue to anyone else. But her new friends insist on joining her mission, and she battles between relief and frustration at their presence. Especially the white man who peers at her as if he can see through the face of the warrior she struggles so hard to maintain....
11) Ruby Ridge
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Ruby Ridge is a riveting account of the event that helped give rise to the modern American militia movement.
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When police in Rexburg, Idaho perform a wellness check on seven J.J. Vallow and his sister, sixteen-year-old Tylee Ryan, both children are nowhere to be found. Their mother, Lori Vallow, gives a phony explanation, and when officers return the following day with a search warrant, she, too, is gone. As the police begin to close in, a larger web of mystery, murder, fanaticism and deceit begins to unravel. Vallow’s case is sinuously complex. As investigators...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
Napoleon is a new kind of hero, complete with a tight red 'fro, sweet moon boots, and skills that can't be topped. Napoleon spends his days drawing mythical beasts, duking it out with his older brother, Kip, and trying to avoid his scheming Uncle Rico. When two friends enter Napoleon's life - shy Deb and mustachioed Pedro - the trio launches a campaign to elect Pedro for class president and make the student body's wildest dreams come true. But if...