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Explore the Classics - YOUTH
If You Like...Hatchet
OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
OBD Read Beyond The Beaten Path - YOUTH
If You Like...Hatchet
OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
OBD Read Beyond The Beaten Path - YOUTH
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A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.
2) Heidi
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Explore the Classics - YOUTH
OBD Father's Day (June) - YOUTH
OBD Grandparent's Day (September) - YOUTH
OBD Father's Day (June) - YOUTH
OBD Grandparent's Day (September) - YOUTH
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At the age of five, little orphan Heidi is sent to live with her grandfather in the Alps. Everyone in the village is afraid of him, but Heidi is fascinated by his long beard and bushy gray eyebrows. She loves her life in the mountains, playing in the sunshine and growing up among the goats and birds. But one terrible day, Heidi is collected by her aunt and is made to live with a new family in town. Heidi can't bear to be away from her grandfather;...
3) White bird
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A lonely boy is found and reared by a hermit in the wilderness of the Tennessee mountains in the 1880s.
4) Wild boy
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Twelve-year-old Jesse runs away from home and tries to survive on his own in the nearby mountains.
5) Scouts
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The summer before seventh grade, five best friends sneak out to watch a meteor shower, but soon find themselves on the run from a violent mountain clan.
8) Christy
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An adaptation of the 1967 novel chronicling the experiences of a young woman after she arrives to teach school in a small town in the Great Smoky Mountains in 1912.
12) Let's be friends
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Twelve children from different countries come to Uncle Max's house in the Swiss mountains for a winter holiday.
14) Banjo
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While doing research for a school essay about a reclusive old mountain man, two boys fall into an abandoned mine shaft from which only the old man can rescue them.
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Having been forced to act as mother and housekeeper during Mama's illness, twelve-year-old Amanda has a holiday in Memphis, far removed from the Depression drudgery of her Kentucky mountain family, and finds her world expanding even as she grows to understand and appreciate her own background.
19) Hill Hawk Hattie
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Angry and lonely after her mother dies, eleven-year-old Hattie pretends to be a boy and joins her father on a adventure-filled rafting trip down the Delaware River in the late 1800s to transport logs from New York to Philadelphia.
20) Heidi
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Heidi spends her childhood with her grandfather on the alpine pastures of Switzerland. Against her will, she is taken to a wealthy family in Frankfurt to be the playmate of the disabled daughter, Klara. Although Heidi and Klara soon becomes friends, she is drawn back to her homeland. When Klara is finally able to visit Heidi in the alpine surroundings, she gains strength and courage to overcome her childhood paralysis.
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