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Author
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"With about 9.5 million visitors per year, Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most popular national park in the country. One look at the incredible scenery of the Great Smoky Mountains is all it takes to see why so many people travel here from around the world. Readers will tour the park and find out which plants and animals live there. They will also learn how the park was formed, which people used to live there, and more." --
Author
Series
Willa of the Wood volume 1
Language
English
Description
In the late 1800s, a twelve-year-old nightspirit living in the Great Smoky Mountains despairs as homesteaders destroy her forest habitat, until a chance encounter with a "day-folk" man changes everything she thought she knew about her people--and their greatest enemy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallopade International
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
158 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Christina, Grant, Mimi, and Papa head to the Great Smoky Mountains and end up in an A+ Appalachian mystery complete with an eerie mountain haze, spectacular scenery, a boisterous bear, confounding clues, and mystifying folklore!
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In North Carolina's Great Smoky Mountains, a troubled boy and his mother, a happy family seeking adventure, a man and his lonely daughter, and the widow who must sell the run-down motel that has been her home for decades, meet and are transformed by their shared experiences.
Author
Language
English
Description
Autumn Winifred Oliver, an eleven-year-old girl living in Cades Cove, Eastern Tennessee, during the Depression, watches her grandfather as he tries to persuade his neighbors to back the proposed Great Smoky Mountains National Park, but when they discover that the government representative is lying to them, Gramps becomes even more resourceful. Includes author's note about the history of the park.
Author
Series
Adventures with the Parkers volume 6
Publisher
Fulcrum Pub
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
93 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twin brother and sister, James and Morgan, embark on another adventure with their parents to explore the history, unusual geology, famous sites, plants, and animals of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Sidebar notes contain additional facts about the area and describe the park's regulations and tourist facilities.
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
105 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Jennalee is jealous when a slow-thinking black man arrives in her Smoky Mountains community and claims to be the son of Uncle Beau, the owner of the general store and Jennalee's only friend.
Author
Series
Mysteries in our national parks volume 13
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
157 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
While their mother investigates a series of bear attacks in and near Gatlinburg, Tennessee, Jack and Ashley learn about country music and Cherokee people from two new friends, one of whom is keeping a secret.
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