Books of Mountain life

  • Oscar's Day
    Oscar's Day
    By Cynthia Benjamin, Jenny Vaughan

    Oscar's Day is a Recount; Biography text covering Geography themes for Year 1. It is part of Four Corners, the most visually compelling series of cross-curricular books to motivate all readers from 4 to 11.

  • アルプスの少女ハイジ
    By 平田昭吾

    アルプスの少女ハイジ

  • The Hour of Death
    The Hour of Death
    By William W. Johnstone, J. A. Johnstone

    "Sixkiller has come to Ringgold, Wyoming, on the trail of Bart Skillern, a vicious murderer he's been carefully stalking for weeks.

  • Oscar's Day
    Oscar's Day
    By Cynthia Benjamin, Jenny Vaughan

    "Oscar wants to go to the market with his family. He must first help Mama on the farm. Oscar's day tells about the jobs Oscar does before he can go to the market"--Page 4 of cover.

  • Listen for Rachel
    By Lou Kassem

    From the bestselling author of @Middle School Blues^ comes an evocative book based on Appalachian mountain legends--the coming-of-age story of a girl who finds her loyalties divided by the Civil War.

  • Sixkiller, U.S. Marshal: Dead Man Walking
    By William W. Johnstone, J. A. Johnstone

    John Henry Sixkiller is as fearless as they come. Now he faces his greatest challenge-- as a U.S. Marshal, he must take on the most notorious outlaws the west has ever seen.

  • The Mountain Men and the Snowy River Riders
    By James Cowan

    The Mountain Men and the Snowy River Riders

  • Summits: Climbing the Seven Summits Solo
    By Robert Mads Anderson

    The author recounts his attempt, in words and pictures, to be the first person in the world to scale the highest peak on each of the earth's seven continents

  • Code of the Mountain Man
    Code of the Mountain Man
    By William Johnstone

    Lee Slater and his gang of lowlife desperadoes didn't know that Smoke Jensen had given up his gunslinger status to become a family man.

  • Where Rivers Meet: A Tibetan Refugee Community's Struggle to Survive in the High Mountains of Nepal
    By Clint Rogers

    Where Rivers Meet: A Tibetan Refugee Community's Struggle to Survive in the High Mountains of Nepal

  • My Side of the Mountain
    By Jean Craighead George

    There, Sam must rely on his own ingenuity and the resources of the great outdoors to survive -- and he discovers a side of himself he never knew existed. Book jacket.

  • Waking
    Waking
    By Ron Rash

    Long live Ron Rash the storyteller, but heres the news. Ron Rash the poet is back and giving us poems that are both the river stones and the water making them shine.

  • Preacher's Blood Hunt
    By William W. Johnstone, J. A. Johnstone

    On a dangerous Rocky Mountain trail, Peacher must deal with Jebediah Druke and his ruthless band of killers and Crow warrior Blood Eye, who has been tracking Preacher with nothing but bad intentions.

  • Reap the Whirlwind
    Reap the Whirlwind
    By David Thompson

    Mountain man Nate King battles to keep his family safe from stampeding buffalo and whites on the warpath as the Kings go farther into the wilderness to find a new home. Original.

  • Listen for Rachel
    By Lou Kassem

    Moving up into the mountains of Tennessee introduces Rachel to a possible calling, as she learns about folk medicine from a local healer, until the Civil War divides the family loyalties and brings romance into her life.

  • The Weekender Effect: Hyperdevelopment in Mountain Towns
    The Weekender Effect: Hyperdevelopment in Mountain Towns
    By Robert W. Sandford

    ... mountain communities everywhere , this calmly passionate book belongs in every house , condo , tent and backpack in the mountain West ... water resources and author of Water , Weather and the Mountain West ( Rocky Mountain Books , 2007 ) . He ...

  • Living in the Mountains: Communities We Live in

    This book describes geographical and cultural aspects of communities located in the mountains.

  • Midnight in the Mountains
    By Julie Lawson, Sheena Lott

    Unable to sleep during her first night in the mountain cabin, a little girl listens to the sounds outside and recalls her snow-filled day.

  • Living in the Mountains: Communities We Live in

    This book describes geographical and cultural aspects of communities located in the mountains.

  • Good Times on Grandfather Mountain
    Good Times on Grandfather Mountain
    By Jacqueline Briggs Martin

    Mountain man Washburn insists on looking on the bright side of things, even as disaster after disaster befalls him. This robust book celebrates music and life in the plain, cadenced language of old folktale.