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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport,...
3) Idaho
Author
Publisher
Childrens
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. (mostly col.), col. maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the history, culture, geography, and people of the state of Idaho.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Her mother abandoned her, her father disowned her, and her husband left her. Can Brooklyn be convinced that it is possible to forgive the greatest of betrayals? Brooklyn Myers escaped her broken home and her embittered, unloving father by eloping to Reno at the age of 17. But when she was pregnant with their first child, her husband abandoned her as well. Not welcome back home in Thunder Creek, Brooklyn stayed in Reno and raised her daughter Alycia...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Berkley Sensation mass-market ed.
Physical Desc
298 p. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After a tragic stint in the National Guards, Adam Connelly returns to Idaho and to Belle Haven, the animal shelter he owns with his brothers. All Adam wants is to be alone. Then he opens the door to the past--the woman whose heart he once broke. Still gorgeous, still tough-as-nails, but this time, unusually vulnerable. Holly learned the hard way to never depend on a man for anything. Now, of all men, Adam is the last one she wants to see, and the...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this wacky true tale of American ingenuity, Annie Miller took to raising pigs in the yard after losing all but her mansion, but when the town wanted the pigs out, she removed the whole mansion instead--rolling it away slowly on logs"--
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Living in harsh poverty during a brutal Idaho winter, Jack searches for the drug money that sent his father to prison in order to keep his brother out of foster care, while Ava, under the control of her merciless father, makes a wrenching choice to help the brothers survive.
10) Kingdomtide
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
11) Deep Creek
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
308 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the discovery of forty murdered Chinese gold miners in a 19th-century Idaho territory lake, lawman Joe Vincent teams up with an ambitious company researcher and a metis mountain guide to track the killers across the Pacific Northwest.
12) Moonshadows
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
After moving to Ketchum, Idaho, photographer Nellie Burns takes pictures of a dead body she discovers, but after the body disappears and her negatives are stolen, she finds evidence of opium addiction, obssession, and plans for revenge among the town's residents.