utah

When her best friend Jason's house is put up for sale, and he tells her that his family is moving to California, Annie Jenkins is devastated by the news that she is losing the other member of the PB & J Society--so when neighbor Mrs. Schuster tells her about a buried chest and gives her a map she convinces herself that this is a way for Jason's family to pay off their mortgage and stay in Utah.

A Japanese artist illustrates and narrates her experiences in the Japanese internment camps where 110,000 people of Japanese descent were held in the U.S. during World War II.

Explore the history and architecture of the Salt Lake City Mormon Temple from the exterior to the interior.

"High school senior Tanner Scott has hidden his bisexuality since his family moved to Utah, but he falls hard for Sebastian, a Mormon mentoring students in a writing seminar Tanner's best friend convinced him to take"--OCLC.

The author recounts his harrowing experiences of being trapped for six days in Blue John Canyon in Utah and having to amputate his own right arm in order to save his life.

Explores Zion National Park, including how it was formed, which wildlife can be found there today, and how it is affected by environmental issues.

Hiking into the remote Utah canyonlands, Aron Ralston felt perfectly at home in the beautiful natural world. Then, at 2:41 p.m., eight miles from his truck, in a deep and narrow slot canyon, an eight-hundred-pound boulder tumbled loose, pinning Aron's right hand and wrist against the canyon wall. Through six days of hell, with scant water, food, or warm clothing, and the terrible knowledge that no one knew where he was, Aron eliminated his escape options one by one. Then a moment of stark clarity helped him to solve the riddle of the boulder, and commit one of the most extreme and desperate acts imaginable.

While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the nearby internment camp.

High school senior Tanner Scott has hidden his bisexuality since his family moved to Utah, but he falls hard for Sebastian, a Mormon mentoring students in a writing seminar Tanner's best friend convinced him to take.

While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the nearby internment camp.