mountain life

Several years after Fontana dam flooded the town where they were born, Ingledove and her brother Lang go wandering in the southern Appalachians, where they encounter their mother's peculiar people, the Adantan, and an evil being who charms Lang.

A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.

A collection of monologues and dialogues collected from East Tennesee and the Appalachian region.

Mamire, a young boy who lives in the mountains of Chile with his parents, witnesses the mass exodus of people to the cities in order to find work and a better life for their families. Presented in Spanish.

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.

Jeremiah Johnson, heads to the Rocky Mountains in the mid-1800s in search of solitude, but after nearly dying in his first winter, he is taken in by an elderly trapper who teaches him the skills he needs to survive.

A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.

A homework pack that contains book and audio versions of "My Side of the Mountain," in which a young boy tells of his adventures living alone in the Catskill Mountains for a year, discussing his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship; and includes a student worksheet and teacher's guide.

A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.

A young boy runs away from home to live in the wild on the site that used to be his grandfather's farm.