Bless The Beasts & Children
Ostracized by their peers at Box Canyon Boys Camp in Arizona, six teenage boys from dysfunctional homes band together to free a herd of buffalo to be used as game in a state-sanctioned guided hunt.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 970
subjects: camps, bison, adolescence, adventure stories, audiobooks, adventure fiction, boys, arizona [X]
Vanishing Acts
Thirty-two-year-old New Hampshire search-and-rescue worker Delia Hopkins, a soon-to-be-married mother of a five-year-old daughter, begins having strange flashbacks of a forgotten childhood and learns that her father, whom she always believed to be a widower, kidnapped her when she was four--and that her mother is still alive.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 21
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 830
subjects: young women, adult children of divorced parents, fathers and daughters, parental kidnapping, divorced fathers, new hampshire, arizona [X], father-daughter relationship, father-child relationship, father and child
False Fortune
Business attorney Hannah Dain, settling back into her law practice at the family firm in Arizona after dumping her boyfriend Cooper for the second time, finds herself in over her head when she agrees to stand in for her sister and fellow attorney Shelby on a lawsuit brought by a local Native American tribe, and somehow ends up appointed the lead counsel in the complicated case.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Coyote School News
In 1938-1939, fourth-grader Monchi Ramirez and the other students at Coyote School enjoy their new teacher, have a special Christmas celebration, participate in the Tucson Rodeo Parade, and produce their own school newspaper.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
Half Broke Horses
A true-life novel about Lily Casey Smith (the author's grandmother) who at age six helped her father break horses, at age fifteen left home to teach in a frontier town, and later as a wife and mother runs a vast ranch in Arizona where she survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy--but despite a life of hardscrabble drudgery still remains a woman of indomitable spirit.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 24
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: horses, ranches, frontier and pioneer life, smith, lily casey, walls, jeannette, ranch life, texas, arizona [X], autobiographical fiction, domestic fiction, historical fiction, biographical fiction
The Painted Boy
Chicago teen Jay Li, part-human and part-dragon, travels to Santo del Vado Viejo in the Arizona desert where he faces challenges that help him grow as a man and a dragon, and falls in love with the lead guitarist of the rock band Malo Malo.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Transparent
Sixteen-year-old Fiona O'Connell is the world's first invisible girl, which makes her the ideal weapon for her crime-lord father.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: invisibility, interpersonal relations, runaway teenagers, high schools, school stories, arizona [X]
Double-crossed At Cactus Flats
When young Archer and his partner, Bull, find a silver vein in the Arizona desert, they think they will be rich, but Cactus Flats is a town with many dangers and men waiting to double-cross them, and the reader must choose between three possible endings.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 460
subjects: plot-your-own stories, silver mines and mining, western stories, adventure and adventurers, arizona [X]
Arizona In Words And Pictures
Presents a brief history and description of the Grand Canyon State.
979.1
year: 1980
copies: 3
call number/section: 979.1
lexile:
subjects: arizona [X]
Arizona
An introduction to Arizona, covering the state's location, history, flower, seal, flag, bird, capital, goods, and more.
979.1
year: 2013
copies: 3
call number/section: 979.1
lexile:
subjects: arizona [X]
Into Wild Arizona
Television personality Jeff Corwin takes the reader on an expedition through the harsh environment of Arizona, and introduces some of the diverse wildlife found there.
591.97
year: 2004
copies: 2
call number/section: 591.97
lexile:
The Fellowship For Alien Detection
Having each been awarded a Fellowship for Alien Detection, a grant from a mysterious foundation dedicated to proving aliens exist, Haley and Doger and their families set off on a cross-country road trip to prove aliens exist, but someone, or something, is doing everything in its power to make sure they never reach the vanished town of Juliette, AZ.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
G Is For Grand Canyon
People, places, animals, and characteristic things of Arizona are represented by the letters of the alphabet, with information about them presented in rhyme and explanatory notes.
979.1
year: 2002
copies: 5
call number/section: 979.1
lexile:
Arizona
A photographic introduction to Arizona, discussing the history, geographical features, industries, wildlife, attractions, and other aspects of the Grand Canyon State.
979.1
year: 2010
copies: 3
call number/section: 979.1
lexile:
subjects: arizona [X]
Black Tuesday
An over-achieving Phoenix high school student's life changes dramatically when she is responsible for a car crash that kills a child, and she goes from honors classes and tennis team captain to doing community service and rebelling against her controlling mother.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: