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1) Squirm
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Billy Dickens discovers that his mysterious father lives in Montana, so this summer Billy will fly across the country, hike a mountain, float a river, dodge a grizzly bear, shoot down a spy drone, and save his own father.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Isabelle Rackham enters into an arranged marriage in 1850 with the eligible Alexander Osgood, owner of a successful mill in Manchester, England, and who has close business relationships with Isabelle's father. Although she enters the marriage with no illusions about love, but with a will to make it work, she finds her new home in cold, dreary, dark northern England difficult to bear until an accident occurs on a visit to Alexander's country estate....
Author
Series
Earth's children volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
Description
Ayla, clearly a member of the Others, is raised by the Clan of the Cave Bear, a rival race of humanoid creatures living in prehistoric Europe.
Author
Series
Cecil Younger mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Soho Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cecil is hired to investigate the motive of a murder. The danger lies in the meaning of a Tlingit myth.
7) Gentle Ben
Author
Publisher
Duttons Children's Books
Pub. Date
c1965
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
191 p. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the friendship between a boy and a bear in the rugged Alaskan Territory.
9) Black bears
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Read about North America's most common bear, an expert tree climber that's at home in almost every habitat"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
FriesenPress
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
22 pages : color illustrations ; 22cm.
Language
English
Description
"A little black bear and his forest friends gather materials for Spider Woman, a holy woman in Navajo/Dine culture and folklore, to weave a blanket of dreams for his winter's hibernation.".
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his anger erupts into violence, fifteen year-old Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the Native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all.
Author
Series
Timmy Failure volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
294 p. : ill. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Meet Timmy Failure, the founder, president, and CEO of the best detective agency in town, probably the nation. And his lazy sidekick, Total, a 1,500-pound polar bear.
16) Beheld: a novel
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten years after the Mayflower pilgrims arrived on rocky, unfamiliar soil, Plymouth is not the land its residents had imagined. Seemingly established on a dream of religious freedom, in reality the town is led by fervent puritans who prohibit the residents from living, trading, and worshipping as they choose. By the time an unfamiliar ship, bearing new colonists, appears on the horizon one summer morning, Anglican outsiders have had enough.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Trapping beaver, they contend daily with the threat of Indian tribes turned warlike over the white men's encroachment on their land, and other prairie foes -- like the unforgiving landscape and its creatures. Hugh Glass is among the Company's finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face...
18) Wolf brother
Author
Series
Chronicles of ancient darkness volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
6,000 years in the past, twelve-year-old Tarak and his guide, a wolf cub, set out on a dangerous journey to fulfill an oath the boy made to his dying father--to travel to the Mountain of the World Spirit seeking a way to destroy a demon-possessed bear that threatens all the clans.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Several animals sleep snugly in Nicki's lost mitten until the bear sneezes. On board pages.
After Nicki accidentally drops his mitten in the forest it becomes an object of curiosity for a mole, a rabbit, a badger, a tiny brown mouse, a big brown bear, and others, as they all crawl into it.
Author
Language
English
Description
"1890: When Desiderya Lopez, The Sleepy Prophet, finds an abandoned infant on the banks of an arroyo, she recognizes something in his spirit and brings him home. Pidre will go on to become a famous showman in the Anglo West whose main act, Simodecea, is Pidre's fearless, sharpshooting wife, who wrangles bears as part of his show. 1935: Luz "Little Light" Lopez and her brother Diego work the carnival circuit in downtown Denver. Luz, is a tea leaf reader,...
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