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1) Squirm
Author
Language
English
Description
Billy Dickens discovers that his mysterious father lives in Montana, so this summer Billy will fly across the country, hike a mountain, float a river, dodge a grizzly bear, shoot down a spy drone, and save his own father.
Author
Series
Poison apple books volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
While staying on a ranch in Montana with family friends, Marisol begins to fear that she might be living with a werewolf.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First Harcourt paperback edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Back at her childhood home in Missoula, Montana, after a disastrous concert in Germany, a teenage violin prodigy contemplates giving up life with her mother in New York City and her music as she, her father, stepmother, and stepsister hike to a pioneer homesite where another violinist once faced difficult decisions of his own.
4) Dust devil
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having moved to Montana from Tennessee in the 1830s, fearless Angelica Longrider--also known as Swamp Angel--changes the state's landscape, tames a wild horse, and captures some desperadoes.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
197 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lulu, burdened with caring for her sister, Serena, since their father disappeared, must learn to trust her new friends and community when secrets and lies catch up with her.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
217 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Donald thinks nothing could be worse than missing a pop fly in a baseball game that most of his Montana town was watching, but through the end of 1947 and beginning of 1948, he suffers one humiliation after another.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
215 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1946 when his father returns from the war, a ten year old boy and his family move from the Montana town where they had been living to an old, run-down farm in the middle of nowhere, where they work hard trying to make ends meet.
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 310 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In the early part of the 1900s, Beatrice and Lionel, two Blackfeet Indian children, escape from the Chalk Bluff Indian Boarding School in Montana to find their grandfather, and must elude their pursuers and make a life for themselves in the wilderness.
Author
Series
Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 5
Language
English
Description
During their search for members of a notorious gang responsible for a payroll robbery, Joe and Frank Hardy encounter timber wolves, a Rocky Mountain blizzard and a mine cave-in.
12) Firstborn
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
227 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A wolf pack's alpha gets a disappointing surprise when his first born son is not like a normal wolf, but rather one who has fallen for a coyote"--
Author
Series
Gravediggers volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
During a class trip to the Montana woods, three sixth-graders, athletic Ian, sensitive PJ, and brainy Kendra, are separated from their group and must rely on each other to survive as they encounter zombies and more.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bucking Horse Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
174 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the humorous and dramatic adventures of twelve-year-old sleuths Slate Stephens and Daphne McSweeney as they scramble to find Cat, the Governor of Montana's missing dog.
15) Dog sense
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
176 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
After he and his mother move from California to Montana to live with his grandfather, thirteen-year-old Guy gradually adjusts to the unfamiliar surroundings, makes a friend, and learns to deal with a bully, with the help of his Frisbee-catching dog, Streak.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a ball of light appears with the power to bring the dead back to life, twins Fiona and Fenton are determined to catch it and perform some experiments.
17) Falcon wild
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
174 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Karma lives with her family at their raptor conservation center in Montana. When she has to take her beloved bird, Stark, the gyrfalcon she rescued, back to its owner, she's sorely disappointed. But things get worse when a car accident leaves her father and brother trapped. It's up to Karma--and a runaway boy named Cooper who ends up by her side--to survive the wilderness and find a way to rescue them"--
18) Hattie Big Sky
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe.
Author
Series
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Life is rapidly changing for pre-teen shoe spokesperson Riley Mae. After escaping near disaster at the top of Half Dome in Yosemite, Riley, her family, and her Swiftriver co-workers fly to a secret hideout in Northwest Montana. But when the plane's malfunction leads to a rough landing, Riley wants nothing more than to return to friends, church, and home. Then she meets Sunday, a ten-year-old boy from Kenya who wrestles fish, battles bears, and tackles...
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