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1) Lumberjack
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about lumberjacks. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Karl Marlantes's debut novel Matterhorn has been hailed as a modern classic of war literature. In his new novel, Deep River, Marlantes turns to another mode of storytelling--the family epic--to craft a stunningly expansive narrative of human suffering, courage, and reinvention. In the early 1900s, as the oppression of Russia's imperial rule takes its toll on Finland, the three Koski siblings--Ilmari, Matti, and the politicized young Aino--are forced...
Author
Language
English
Description
The remarkable story of James Howard “Billy” Williams, whose uncanny rapport with the world’s largest land animals transformed him from a carefree young man into the charismatic war hero known as Elephant Bill
Billy Williams came to colonial Burma in 1920, fresh from service in World War I, to a job as a “forest man” for a British teak company. Mesmerized by the intelligence, character, and even humor of the great animals who hauled logs...
6) Swift rivers
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
After being turned out by his mean-spirited uncle, Chris Dahlberg decides to harvest some of the timber on his grandfather's land in Minnesota and float the giant logs down the Mississippi River to market in St. Louis.
7) Grizzwold
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1984, ©1963
Language
English
Description
Grizzwold, a huge bear, searches for a home. (I Can Read).
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A mother and midwife inadvertently threatens the fortunes and livelihoods of her family and their neighbors after noticing an increase in local miscarriages and believes it's caused by the pesticides used by the Sanderson Timber Company, her husband's employer.
11) Texas timber war
Author
Series
Trailsman volume 313
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
12) Hill Hawk Hattie
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Description
Angry and lonely after her mother dies, eleven-year-old Hattie pretends to be a boy and joins her father on an adventure-filled rafting trip down the Delaware River in the late 1800s to transport logs from New York to Philadelphia.
15) Riding the flume
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
In 1894, fifteen-year-old Francie determines to fight the lumbermen and protect the largest Sequoia tree ever seen, which had been given to her sister just before her death six years earlier.
Author
Series
My near-death adventures volume 1
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In 1895, twelve-year-old Stan decides to find his long-lost father in the logging camps of Michigan, documenting in his scrapbook his travels and encounters with troublesome relatives, his mother's suitors, lumberjacks, and more.
17) Blackwater Ben
Author
Series
Blackwater Ben adventures volume 1
Publisher
Dell Yearling
Pub. Date
[2005], c2003
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Ben Ward drops out of school and joins his father working as a cook at the Blackwater Logging Camp in Minnesota in the winter of 1898.
Author
Series
Wild rescue volume 3
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Twins Ben and Zoe are sent to the jungles of Borneo to rescue an orangutan and save his refuge from illegal logging.