Author: Elise Broach
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1429975008
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
It's summer and the three Barker brothers—Simon, Henry, and Jack—just moved from Illinois to Arizona. Their parents have warned them repeatedly not to explore Superstition Mountain, which is near their home. But when their cat Josie goes missing, they see no other choice. There's something unusually creepy about the mountain and after the boys find three human skulls, they grow determined to uncover the mystery. Have people really gone missing over the years, and could there be someone or some thing lurking in the woods? Together with their new neighbor Delilah, the Barker boys are dead-set on cracking the case even if it means putting themselves in harm's way. Here's the first book in an action-packed mystery series by a New York Times bestselling author. Missing on Superstition Mountain is a Publishers Weekly Best Children's Fiction title for 2011.
Missing on Superstition Mountain
Author: Elise Broach
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1429975008
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
It's summer and the three Barker brothers—Simon, Henry, and Jack—just moved from Illinois to Arizona. Their parents have warned them repeatedly not to explore Superstition Mountain, which is near their home. But when their cat Josie goes missing, they see no other choice. There's something unusually creepy about the mountain and after the boys find three human skulls, they grow determined to uncover the mystery. Have people really gone missing over the years, and could there be someone or some thing lurking in the woods? Together with their new neighbor Delilah, the Barker boys are dead-set on cracking the case even if it means putting themselves in harm's way. Here's the first book in an action-packed mystery series by a New York Times bestselling author. Missing on Superstition Mountain is a Publishers Weekly Best Children's Fiction title for 2011.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1429975008
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
It's summer and the three Barker brothers—Simon, Henry, and Jack—just moved from Illinois to Arizona. Their parents have warned them repeatedly not to explore Superstition Mountain, which is near their home. But when their cat Josie goes missing, they see no other choice. There's something unusually creepy about the mountain and after the boys find three human skulls, they grow determined to uncover the mystery. Have people really gone missing over the years, and could there be someone or some thing lurking in the woods? Together with their new neighbor Delilah, the Barker boys are dead-set on cracking the case even if it means putting themselves in harm's way. Here's the first book in an action-packed mystery series by a New York Times bestselling author. Missing on Superstition Mountain is a Publishers Weekly Best Children's Fiction title for 2011.
Treasure on Superstition Mountain
Author: Elise Broach
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805077634
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Returning to Superstition Mountain, the Barker brothers, along with their friend Delilah, soon find themselves entangled in more danger and mystery as they uncover a treasure. Illustrations.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805077634
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Returning to Superstition Mountain, the Barker brothers, along with their friend Delilah, soon find themselves entangled in more danger and mystery as they uncover a treasure. Illustrations.
Revenge of Superstition Mountain
Author: Elise Broach
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805089098
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
The Barker brothers and their friend Delilah secretly climb up to Superstition Mountain one last time, hoping to solve the remaining mysteries, including whether the librarian is really the ghost of Julia Thomas, what was their uncle Hank's role in discovering the gold mine, and especially, who is trying to kill them.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805089098
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
The Barker brothers and their friend Delilah secretly climb up to Superstition Mountain one last time, hoping to solve the remaining mysteries, including whether the librarian is really the ghost of Julia Thomas, what was their uncle Hank's role in discovering the gold mine, and especially, who is trying to kill them.
Vengeance Road
Author: Erin Bowman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544466381
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
When her father is murdered for a journal revealing the location of a hidden gold mine, eighteen-year-old Kate Thompson disguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers -- and justice. What she finds are untrustworthy strangers, endless dust and heat, and a surprising band of allies, among them a young Apache girl and a pair of stubborn brothers who refuse to quit riding in her shadow. But as Kate gets closer to the secrets about her family, a startling truth becomes clear: some men will stop at nothing to get their hands on gold, and Kate's quest for revenge may prove fatal.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544466381
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
When her father is murdered for a journal revealing the location of a hidden gold mine, eighteen-year-old Kate Thompson disguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers -- and justice. What she finds are untrustworthy strangers, endless dust and heat, and a surprising band of allies, among them a young Apache girl and a pair of stubborn brothers who refuse to quit riding in her shadow. But as Kate gets closer to the secrets about her family, a startling truth becomes clear: some men will stop at nothing to get their hands on gold, and Kate's quest for revenge may prove fatal.
Appalachia Mountain Folklore
Author: Micheal Rivers
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780764340062
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The mountains of the Appalachia abound with tales of ghosts and mysterious places. Covering 16 counties, 40 spine-tingling stories will have you traveling the roads and paths of those who have walked before you and listening to their sorrowful tales. Along the way, visit The Hanging Tree in Cabarrus County, Battle Mansion in Buncombe County, Green River Plantation in Rutherford County, and the House on the Hill in Jackson County. Sit around the campfire and hear stories of lore about the legend of the Bald, the warning of the Hunter's Moon, and the disappearance of an entire hunting party. Superstition, folklore, and the paranormal keep the spirits alive in the Appalachian region. Will you be the next one to visit with the ghosts of Cherohala?
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780764340062
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The mountains of the Appalachia abound with tales of ghosts and mysterious places. Covering 16 counties, 40 spine-tingling stories will have you traveling the roads and paths of those who have walked before you and listening to their sorrowful tales. Along the way, visit The Hanging Tree in Cabarrus County, Battle Mansion in Buncombe County, Green River Plantation in Rutherford County, and the House on the Hill in Jackson County. Sit around the campfire and hear stories of lore about the legend of the Bald, the warning of the Hunter's Moon, and the disappearance of an entire hunting party. Superstition, folklore, and the paranormal keep the spirits alive in the Appalachian region. Will you be the next one to visit with the ghosts of Cherohala?
Cold Mountain
Author: Charles Frazier
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802197175
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
A wounded Confederate soldier treks across the ruins of America in this National Book Award–winning novel: “A stirring Civil War tale told with epic sweep.” —People Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, a Confederate soldier named Inman decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains to Ada, the woman he loves. His journey across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. Meanwhile, the intrepid Ada is trying to revive her father’s derelict farm and learning to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away. As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic odyssey, hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving.
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802197175
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
A wounded Confederate soldier treks across the ruins of America in this National Book Award–winning novel: “A stirring Civil War tale told with epic sweep.” —People Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, a Confederate soldier named Inman decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains to Ada, the woman he loves. His journey across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. Meanwhile, the intrepid Ada is trying to revive her father’s derelict farm and learning to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away. As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic odyssey, hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving.
Revenge
Author: Ann Robbins Phillips
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781477486504
Category : Appalachia
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
On October 28, 1862, Hoopers break into the house of the Watson family and kill three men, injure and resultantly kill one teenage girl and rape another. Nine-year-old Nathe Watson is witness to this western North Carolina Mountain massacre, but escpaes through a window at the urging of his mother. When he returns, he finds heads of the men atop pike poles on display in his front yard. Sent to live in Tennessee with a cousin, Nathe changes his name to Milsaps for protection and stays until he reaches age twenty. He returns to the mountains, burdened with desire for revenge. He is forced to find work to sustain himself as he searches for the murderers. A young civil-war widow, Addie Fisher, and her two children, Davie and Clare, are on near starvation when Nathe comes to work with promise of food and a barn roof over his head. He is torn with fear he will be found by the Hoopers and desire for a family. Sickness, fire, and death abound, but so do love, family, and loyalty. Nathe keeps away from most residents of Rich Mountain but one, known only as Amps, seems to know too much and offer unwanted advice on things that pertain to Nathe ... things he thought no one knew. There is a fact about Addie which could threaten everything. Something Nathe never thought to ask and Addie never assumed to share.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781477486504
Category : Appalachia
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
On October 28, 1862, Hoopers break into the house of the Watson family and kill three men, injure and resultantly kill one teenage girl and rape another. Nine-year-old Nathe Watson is witness to this western North Carolina Mountain massacre, but escpaes through a window at the urging of his mother. When he returns, he finds heads of the men atop pike poles on display in his front yard. Sent to live in Tennessee with a cousin, Nathe changes his name to Milsaps for protection and stays until he reaches age twenty. He returns to the mountains, burdened with desire for revenge. He is forced to find work to sustain himself as he searches for the murderers. A young civil-war widow, Addie Fisher, and her two children, Davie and Clare, are on near starvation when Nathe comes to work with promise of food and a barn roof over his head. He is torn with fear he will be found by the Hoopers and desire for a family. Sickness, fire, and death abound, but so do love, family, and loyalty. Nathe keeps away from most residents of Rich Mountain but one, known only as Amps, seems to know too much and offer unwanted advice on things that pertain to Nathe ... things he thought no one knew. There is a fact about Addie which could threaten everything. Something Nathe never thought to ask and Addie never assumed to share.
The Wolf Keepers
Author: Elise Broach
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1250113040
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
A high-stakes middle grade historical adventure through Yosemite National Park by the New York Times-bestselling author of Masterpiece. Twelve-year-old Lizzie Durango and her dad have always had a zoo to call their home. Lizzie spends her days watching the animals and taking note of their various behaviors. Though the zoo makes for a unique home, it's a hard place for Lizzie to make lasting friends. But all this changes one afternoon when she finds Tyler Briggs, a runaway who has secretly made the zoo his makeshift home. The two become friends and, just as quickly, stumble into a covert investigation involving the zoo wolves who are suddenly dying. Little do they know, this mystery will draw them into a high-stakes historical adventure involving the legend of John Muir as they try to navigate safely while lost in Yosemite National Park. A Christy Ottaviano Book
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1250113040
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
A high-stakes middle grade historical adventure through Yosemite National Park by the New York Times-bestselling author of Masterpiece. Twelve-year-old Lizzie Durango and her dad have always had a zoo to call their home. Lizzie spends her days watching the animals and taking note of their various behaviors. Though the zoo makes for a unique home, it's a hard place for Lizzie to make lasting friends. But all this changes one afternoon when she finds Tyler Briggs, a runaway who has secretly made the zoo his makeshift home. The two become friends and, just as quickly, stumble into a covert investigation involving the zoo wolves who are suddenly dying. Little do they know, this mystery will draw them into a high-stakes historical adventure involving the legend of John Muir as they try to navigate safely while lost in Yosemite National Park. A Christy Ottaviano Book
The Enchanted Night
Author: Miklos Banffy
Publisher: Pushkin Press
ISBN: 1782275932
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Transporting stories of intrigue, superstition and rivalry from a European master, in English for the first time In this stark, haunting collection, Miklós Bánffy narrates with wry wisdom stories of cunning, betrayal and myth ranging from classical antiquity to the Transylvania of his own day. These are communities of sharp rivalries and religious superstition: young Borbálka, about to marry an unsuitable man, receives strange counsel from a suspicious figure in her village; four men seek to exploit the captive Gavrila Lung for money, while mountain wolves howl in the distance; when Old Damaskin betrays his stepson to hold on to his land, his wife extracts bizarre revenge. Translated into English for the first time by the award-winning Len Rix, this collection further establishes Bánffy as one of the foremost European writers of the twentieth century.
Publisher: Pushkin Press
ISBN: 1782275932
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Transporting stories of intrigue, superstition and rivalry from a European master, in English for the first time In this stark, haunting collection, Miklós Bánffy narrates with wry wisdom stories of cunning, betrayal and myth ranging from classical antiquity to the Transylvania of his own day. These are communities of sharp rivalries and religious superstition: young Borbálka, about to marry an unsuitable man, receives strange counsel from a suspicious figure in her village; four men seek to exploit the captive Gavrila Lung for money, while mountain wolves howl in the distance; when Old Damaskin betrays his stepson to hold on to his land, his wife extracts bizarre revenge. Translated into English for the first time by the award-winning Len Rix, this collection further establishes Bánffy as one of the foremost European writers of the twentieth century.
Aw-aw-tam Indian Nights
Author: John William Lloyd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description