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Author
Series
Dakota diaries volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Michigan, 1873. As Tess Wakefield wakes from a frightening wagon accident, she discovers she has lost her memories. In her recovery, she loses her heart as well to handsome lumberjack Jake Lannigan. It's not a two-way street, though. Jake thinks he knows exactly who she is--the spoiled Wakefield Timber heir--but he believes the accident provides the means to show her that she has a responsibility to replant the trees and not to merely invest her...
2) Lumberjack
Author
Series
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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
Description
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County-to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto-pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. A tale that...
Author
Publisher
Little Bigfoot, an imprint of Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and sparse text reveal a developing friendship between a sasquatch and a lumberjack, from their first meeting through a year of apple picking, skiing, hiking, and swimming.
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
When animal catchers come to the forest looking for the scary-looking, but very kindly, Hodag to take him to a zoo, a group of lumberjacks must find a way to protect their friend.
Author
Series
Patchwork family volume 2
Language
English
Description
1896. Abigail Kemp needs a man's name on her bakery's deed. A marriage of convenience seems the best solution-- if it involves a man she can control. That person definitely isn't the stoic lumberman, Zach Hamilton, who oozes silent confidence whenever he enters her shop. Zach is finally enjoying the quiet bachelor existence he's always craved-- until he learns the baker of his favorite breakfast bun is being railroaded by the city council. When vows...
Author
Language
English
Description
It's 1942, and as the war rages in Europe, Maisie McCall is in the Scottish Highlands swinging an axe for the Women's Timber Corps. Maisie relishes her newfound independence working alongside other lumberjacks -- including the mysterious John Lindsay. As Maisie and John work side by side felling trees together, Maisie can't help but feel that their friendship has the spark of something more to it. And yet every time she gets close to him, John pulls...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"For generations, Rich Gundersen's family has chopped a livelihood out of the redwood forest along California's rugged coast. Now Rich and his wife, Colleen, are raising their own young son near Damnation Grove, a swath of ancient redwoods on which Rich's employer, Sanderson Timber Co., plans to make a killing. In 1977, with most of the forest cleared or protected, a grove like Damnation--and beyond it 24-7 Ridge--is a logger's dream. It's dangerous...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the tiny timber town of Cordelia, Idaho, ninety-nine year old Weldon Applegate recounts his life in all its glory. It's the story of dark pine forests brewing with ancient magic, and Weldon's struggle as a boy to keep his father's inherited timber claim, the Lost Lot, from the ravenous clutches of Linden Laughlin. Local legend says th Applegate family line boasts some of the greatest lumberjacks to ever roam the American West, but at the beginning...
11) Paul Bunyan
Author
Series
Publisher
Childs World
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the legend of Paul Bunyon, the giant lumberjack.
Author
Series
Publisher
Summerside Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
365 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Love finds you ... Against the backdrop of the breathtaking Bridal Veil Falls in a historic Oregon logging community, a schoolteacher finds herself torn between a past love and the man who could be her future. Sixteen-year-old Margaret Garvey had promised her heart to Nathaniel Cooper the night he disappeared from town. Four years later, just as she's giving love a second chance with Andrew, a handsome logger, Nathaniel suddenly returns to town with...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
[1997]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
45 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
When his Jewish parents send him to a Minnesota logging camp to escape the influenza epidemic of 1918, ten-year-old Marven finds a special friend.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Hals Halson, who is nearly as tall as the legendary Paul Bunyan, strides into a logging camp determined to prove himself the greatest lumberjack in North America, despite Paul's attempts at friendship.
Author
Publisher
Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Big Jim Hickory is a very good lumberjack but begins to worry when his tree-felling causes his woodland friends to lose their homes. So he decides to take quick action to find them a new place to live. Luckily, Jim comes up with a creative idea that will change the way they share the forest and the way they all define home.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Proposing a marriage of convenience to a rugged logger is the boldest move of Nora Underhill's sheltered life. In return for Simon Wallin's protection from her overbearing family, the unassuming seamstress offers prime frontier farmland. But their paper marriage changes when Nora's greedy brother tries to draw her back into a life of drudgery. Her only option: move to Simon's farm, and into the center of his loving, unruly family. Years of shouldering...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Aaron Stein's friends have gone to college and moved on with their lives, while he has been left behind in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State, running a failing bookshop with his dad, Ira. When an opportunity to sell the store arises, Aaron thinks it's his only way out. He doesn't account for Chad, a wheelchair bound optimist. Or the town's out-of-work lumberjacks taking on the failing shop as their pet project. Or Hannah, a musician who might...
Author
Series
Publisher
FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
171 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A sensitive and awkward loner who is deeply concerned with the environment, sixteen-year-old Xie finds community in his rural town with Jo and Leni, two queer girls his age, with whom he frees some captive mink from a local farm. When Xie is the only one caught, his small world gets smaller: Kicked out of high school, he becomes increasingly connected with nature, spending his time in the birch woods behind his house, attending extremist activist...
19) Lumberjackula
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Description
Jack is in a pickle. His lumberjack mom wants him to go to Mighty Log Lumberjack Prep to learn how to chop wood and wear flannel. His vampire dad wants him to go to Sorrow's Gloom Vampire School to learn how to turn into a bat and drink blood-orange juice. And Jack has a secret: what he really wants to do is dance. When he finds out about Tip Tap Twinkle Toes Dance Academy from new friend Plenty, Jack feels he's finally found the place where he can...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
87 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ruby wants to be a teacher, but after her father's death in a logging accident she must quit school to care for her ten brothers and sisters, until a chance meeting with a lonely old blind woman transforms her life.
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