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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019
Description
A famed sandstone arch in Utah's Arches National Park collapses and takes a woman atop it to her death, ensnaring archaeologist Chuck Bender and his family in lethal questions of environmental monkeywrenching and political intrigue. As more deaths follow, Chuck and his wife Janelle race to uncover the killer even as they become targets themselves.
2) Cliff-hanger
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Twelve-year-old Jack and his younger sister visit Mesa Verde National Park, where they delve into the park's history while gradually uncovering the mysterious past of their family's teenage foster child Lucky.
Author
Series
Katt vs. Dogg volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A Dogg family and a Katt family are spending their vacations at Western Frontier Park fighting with each other when a youngster from each family becomes lost in the dangerous forest.
4) The Bunyans
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Paul Bunyan, his wife, and their children do some ordinary things which result in the formation of Niagara Falls, Bryce Canyon, and other natural monuments.
5) Wolf stalker
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Twelve-year-old Jack, his younger sister, and the family's teenage foster child Troy go to Yellowstone National Park, where Jack's mother, a wildlife veterinarian, is investigating the report that wolves reintroduced to the park have killed a dog there.
6) Crosshairs
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Investigative Services Branch (ISB) ranger Ainsley Beaumont arrives in her hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, to investigate the murder of a three-months-pregnant teenager. While she wishes the visit was under better circumstances, she never imagined that she would become the killer's next target -- nor that she'd have to work alongside an old flame. After he almost killed a child, former FBI sniper Lincoln Steele couldn't bring himself to fire a...
7) Buried alive
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008], c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
While their parents study why wolverines are disappearing from Alaska's Denali National Park, Jack and Ashley are stranded in a remote area with their mysterious new foster brother when a hit man's bullet triggers an avalanche.
Author
Series
Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Anna Pigeon leaves the rugged countryside of Colorado to face the concrete wilds of New York City. Anna is in Manhattan to look after her sister Molly, seriously ill with pneumonia and a kidney infection. Pigeon moves in with a ranger friend who has a place on Ellis Island.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002, c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Visiting Zion National Park with his family, twelve-year-old Jack encounters two mysteries, the strange behavior of a band of wild mustangs and the possibly sinister actions of his new foster brother, a Shoshone boy.
10) Public trust
Author
Series
Jack Chastain volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Description
In a true-to-life story about preserving what's important, Ranger Jack Chastain returns to the canyons of New Mexico after fighting wildfires, and steps into a political firestorm. When a mysterious set of provocations pit neighbor against neighbor, a battle between 'self interest' and 'do the right thing' ensues, trapping Chastain between people who must face hard truths about who they can really trust. A beautiful woman makes Chastain take a stand....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Eleanor Briggs travels to Kalispell, Montana, with her conservationist father to discuss the formation of Glacier National Park, and sparks fly when she meets Carter Brunswick, despite their differences. As the town fights to keep the railroad, the dangers Eleanor and Carter face will change the course of their lives"--
12) The Hunted
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
The Landon family travels to Glacier National Park to investigate why grizzly bear cubs are disappearing and become involved with a ten-year-old Mexican runaway boy.
13) Bear bait
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
While working on a 12-week project for the National Park Service as a biologist and volunteer firewatcher, Summer "Sam" Westin finds things heating up when an explosion almost claims the life of another volunteer and is linked to an old gold mine and an illegal bear hunter.
14) Standoff
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Series
Formats
Description
The Natchez Trace National Parkway stretches 444 miles from Nashville to Natchez, the oldest town on the Mississippi River. It's the perfect road for a relaxed pleasure drive. Unfortunately for park ranger Luke Fereday, lately it's being used to move drugs. Sent to Natchez to infiltrate the organization at the center of the drug ring, Luke arrives too late to a stakeout and discovers the body of his friend, park ranger John Danvers.John's daughter...
15) Valley of Death
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
The Landon family makes a trip to Death Valley National Park accompanied by a mysterious new foster child, fourteen-year-old Leesa Sherman.
16) Ghost Horses
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Visiting Zion National Park with his family, twelve-year-old Jack encounters two mysteries, the strange behavior of a band of wild mustangs and the possibly sinister actions of his new foster brother, a Shoshone boy.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Jane's plans for spending the summer playing video games with her friends are dashed when her parents announce that her family is going on a road trip to national parks around the country. Includes list of national parks and historic sites.
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Christina, Grant, Mimi, and Papa head to the Great Smoky Mountains and end up in an A+ Appalachian mystery complete with an eerie mountain haze, spectacular scenery, a boisterous bear, confounding clues, and mystifying folklore!
Author
Series
Adventures with the Parkers volume 1
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Twin brother and sister, James and Morgan, go on an adventurous camping and hiking vacation with their parents to Bryce Canyon and Zion national parks and learn about the history, unusual geology, famous sites, plants, and animals of these two closely situated but very different parks. Accompanying sidebar notes include additional facts about the area and describe the facilities and rules of the two parks.