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2) The river
Author
Language
English
Description
"Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water. Jack is more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under the stars and cooking on a fire came as naturally to him as breathing. When they decide to canoe the Maskwa River in northern Canada, they anticipate long days of...
Author
Language
English
Description
On the morning of her seventieth birthday, Georgianna Grove receives an unexpected letter that calls her back to Missing Lake, Wisconsin, where her mother was murdered sixty- six years earlier. Georgie's father had confessed to the murder the next morning and was carted off to a state penitentiary. Haunted by the night that took both her parents away and determined to unearth the truth, Georgie takes her reluctant family on what will become a dangerous...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A modern tale of striving ambition, envy, desire and murder, and a mesmerizing take on Theodore Dreiser's classic novel An American Tragedy, this time set among California's beautiful people"--
Claire Griffith has a thriving career, a gorgeous boyfriend, glamorous friends. Arriving in Los Angeles flat broke, she has risen to become a popular fitness coach and social media influencer. Rebranding herself as Cleo Ray, she stands at the threshold of...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Anna Pigeon, a ranger for the U.S. Park Services, sets off on vacation--an autumn canoe trip in the Iron Range in upstate Minnesota. With Anna is her friend Heath, a paraplegic; Heath's fifteen-year-old daughter, Elizabeth; Leah, a wealthy designer of outdoor equipment; and her daughter, Katie, who is thirteen. For Heath and Leah, this is a shakedown cruise to test a new cutting-edge line of camping equipment. The equipment, designed by Leah, will...
8) Deliverance
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
English
Description
The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a moment of horror, the adventure turns into a struggle for survival as one man becomes a human hunter who is offered his own harrowing deliverance.
9) Moana
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Moana is on a mission to cross the vast ocean and restore the heart of Te Fiti--the mother island. But first she must find Maui, the once-mighty demigod who stole the heart, and convice him to help her!"--
10) Northwind
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When a deadly plague decimates his fishing village, an orphan named Leif is forced to take to the water in a cedar canoe. He flees northward, following a wild, fjord-riven shore, navigating from one danger to the next. The deeper into his journey he paddles, the closer he comes to his truest self as he connects to the heartbeat of the ocean, the pulse of the landscape.
12) River
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
A woman in a canoe takes the reader on a journey down the Hudson River, from its source, a lake in the Adirondack Mountains, to the point where it flows into the Atlantic Ocean at New York City. Includes a note on the history of the Hudson River.
13) River day
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Alex goes canoeing on the river with her grandfather, in the hope of seeing the bald eagle that is nesting nearby.
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A young Native American boy carves a small wooden man into a canoe. Follows the adventures of the tiny craft as it forges its own path from Lake Superior through the Great Lakes and down to the Atlantic Ocean. A thrilling journey across the waves and rapids of North America.
Series
Sugar Creek Gang volume 2
Publisher
Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Lured by the canoe-sized legend of a two-hundred-year-old fish, the gang packs their bags for a canoe trip upriver. Dragonfly spills the beans to the local town bullies, who follow the gang in hopes of beating them to the catch.
16) River danger
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Although he reluctantly agrees to accompany his little brother on a canoe trip, eighteen-year-old Eric finally gains new respect for this younger sibling whose ingenuity rescues him.
17) Loon chase
Author
Publisher
Sylvan Dell Pub
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
A mother and son enjoy a peaceful canoe trip until their dog's instinct to chase birds adds excitement to the trip. Includes information about loons and directions for making a loon mask.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
When North Carolina fourteen-year-old Dylan Sands joins his fifteen-year-old cousin Rio in running the Rio Grande River, they face a tropical storm and a fugitive kidnapper.
19) Trout summer
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
1995.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
A sister and brother spend a largely unsupervised summer in a cabin near a river, where they befriend an elderly man with much to teach them and where they try to come to terms with their parents' failing marriage and make decisions about their own futures.
20) The red canoe
Author
Publisher
Creative Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An old red canoe believes its best days are behind it and reminisces on past summers' adventures with a beloved boy until the boathouse door creeks open with the possibility for new adventures.
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