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61) Utah Jazz
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
From humble beginnings to one of the world's most popular sports leagues, the NBA has provided thrills to millions of fans since the 1940s. Inside the NBA tells the story of each NBA team, its origins, its successes and failures, and its all-star players and most popular coaches. This NBA series will get you up to speed on your favorite team with fascinating facts and stats, exciting photographs, and much more.
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The moving story of a Navajo high school basketball team, its members struggling with the everyday challenges of high school, adolescence, and family, and the great and unique obstacles facing Native Americans living on reservations.--
64) Escape
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The dramatic true story of one woman’s life inside the ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect featured in Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey—and her courageous flight to freedom with her eight children
With a new epilogue by the author • “Escape provides an astonishing look behind the tightly drawn curtains of the FLDS church, one of the most secretive...
With a new epilogue by the author • “Escape provides an astonishing look behind the tightly drawn curtains of the FLDS church, one of the most secretive...
66) The children of Topaz: the story of a Japanese-American internment camp : based on a classroom diary
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The diary of a 3rd-grade class of Japanese-American children being held with their families in an internment camp during World War II.
67) 127 hours
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
The powerfully uplifting true story of one man's struggle to survive against mountainous odds. Aron Ralston has a passion for all things outdoors. But when a falling boulder traps him in a remote Utah canyon, a thrill-seeker's adventure becomes the challenge of a lifetime. Over the next five days, Ralston embarks on a remarkable personal journey in which he relies on the memories of family and friends as well as his own courage and ingenuity to turn...
68) True sisters
Author
Language
English
Description
This book tells the story of four women, brought together on the harrowing journey of the Martin Handcart Company and united by the promises of prosperity and salvation in a new land. Through the ties of female friendship and the strength born from suffering, each one tests the boundaries of her faith and learns the real meaning of survival along the way.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
A2013
Language
English
Description
Legend of the Ruby Silver: A mother and son are hired to lend a hand at a mining site. When the mine doesn't produce as expected, dangers become more and more real.
Walking thunder: The coming-of-age saga of young Jacob McKay, who becomes stranded with his family in the Rocky Mountains, where they are befriended by human and animal inhabitants.
Long road home: Being left with nowhere else to go Seth moves to his grandparents farm in Utah. Seth grows...
71) Lemon drop falls
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brave the sour to taste the sweet. Morgan is devastated by her mother’s sudden death. Before, Mom’s amazing organizational skills kept the family on track, and her bowl of lemon drops was always on hand to make difficult conversations easy, turning life’s sour into sweet. After, there’s no one to help Morgan navigate her new role caring for her younger siblings, her worries about starting junior high, and her increasingly confusing friendships....
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
A2013
Language
English
Description
Lost in the Barrens: A Canadian boy's 1880s rail odyssey includes a Mountie, a Cree chief, and a train magnate from history, 93 mins.
Walking thunder: The coming-of-age saga of young Jacob McKay, who becomes stranded with his family in the Rocky Mountains, where they are befriended by human and animal inhabitants.
Tom Alone: This adventure story is a coming of age tale of two boys in their late teens: one, a white boy has recently lost his parents,...
73) The Noel letters
Author
Series
Noel collection volume 4
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After nearly two decades, Noel Post, an editor for a major New York publishing house, returns to her childhood home in Salt Lake City to see her estranged, dying father. What she believed would be a brief visit turns into something more as she inherits the bookstore her father fought to keep alive. Reeling from loneliness, a recent divorce, and unanticipated upheavals in her world, Noel begins receiving letters from an anonymous source, each one containing...
Author
Publisher
Blue Apple Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Dinosaurs roamed the earth for millions and millions of years. Museum visitors are awed by the massive skeletons/fossils/creatures on display. But how did the fossils of a colossal diplodocus make the 145-million-year journey from the prehistoric plains of Utah to the Smithsonian Museum of today? Acclaimed author and illustrator, Jessie Hartland (How the Sphinx Got to the Museum), beautifully presents this informative and fascinating history of the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In March 1943, twenty-seven children began third grade in a strange new environment: the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah. Together with their teacher, Miss Yamauchi, these uprooted young Americans began keeping a classroom diary, with a different child illustrating each day's entry. Their full-color diary entries paint a vivid picture of daily life in an internment camp: schoolwork, sports, pets, holidays, health--and the mixed feelings of citizens...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Find your adventure. The sublime landscape of the Wasatch beckons the wild side in all of us. This book tells you what you need to know to experience it all: Getaway ideas for Salt Lake City, Park City and beyond.. Outdoor adventures like hiking, skiing, peak-bagging. How to have the best experience at the Sundance Film Festival. Family-friendly attractions and activities. Where to find the best cuisine and craft brews. Best places to explore outside...
77) Ghost horses
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Visiting Zion National Park with his family, twelve-year-old Jack encounters two mysteries, the strange behavior of a band of wild mustangs and the possibly sinister actions of his new foster brother, a Shoshone boy.
78) Wild bird
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When her behavior escalates out of control, fourteen-year-old Wren is taken away to a wilderness therapy camp where she is forced to develop new skills, including the courage to ask for help.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After losing her soul mate, Cameron, when they were nine, Jennifer, now seventeen, transformed herself from the unpopular fat girl into the beautiful and popular Jenna, but Cameron's unexpected return dredges up memories that cause both social and em
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