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The Abominable Snowman

author: Montgomery, R. A
The reader, as an expert mountain climber, embarks on an expedition in the Himalayas to find the Yeti and rescue a fellow climber.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 36
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660

The Five Fakirs Of Faizabad

author: Kerr, Philip
John and Philippa Gaunt, expecting their lives to return to normal after their mother gives up her djinn powers, are drawn into a desperate quest to find five fakirs who hold the keys to the world's fate after its luck tips wildly out of balance.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 900

Lost Horizon

author: Hilton, James
On the northwestern frontier of India, Conway was a passenger on a plane taken over by a native pilot and never heard of again.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1060

The Abominables

author: Ibbotson, Eva
A century after a yeti captures Lady Agatha Farlingham and takes her to a hidden valley to raise his motherless children, tourism threatens their peaceful existence and young Con and Ellen take these educated and civilized yetis across Europe to Lady Agatha's home in England.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 28
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1010

The Himalayas

author: Maynard, Charles W
Provides information about the Himalayas, a mountain range that stretches from China's border, south to India, and west to Afghanistan, discussing their formation, climate zones, plants and animals, and people, and reviewing the history of exploration of the Himalayas.
915.49
year: 2004
copies: 5
call number/section: 915.49
lexile:
subjects: mountains, himalaya mountains [X]

Kingdom Of The Golden Dragon

author: Allende, Isabel
Sixteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother, a writer for a geography magazine, to the remote Forbidden Kingdom in the Himalayas to help locate a sacred statue of a golden dragon before it is stolen by a greedy outsider.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1080

Pemba Sherpa

author: Cossi, Olga
In a Sherpa village in the foothills of Nepal's Himalayas, seven-year-old Yang Ki wants to haul wood like her brother Pemba, so she'll grow strong enough to be a porter.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: sherpa (nepalese people), siblings, himalaya mountains [X]

The Snow Leopard

author: Matthiessen, Peter
599.74
year: 2008
copies: 4
call number/section: 599.74
lexile: 1330

Lost Horizon

author: Hilton, James
Conway, one of four people whose plane crashed while they were fleeing a civil war in a foreign land, is rescued along with the rest of his group by a mysterious Chinese man who takes them to safety in Shangri-la, a land of peace and beauty where they are offered near immortality on the condition that they never leave.
FIC
year: 1990
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1060

Only Human

author: Thompson, Kate
A search for the elusive Yeti in the faraway Himalayas leads Christie and his stepbrother Danny to question their own humanity.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: yeti, stepbrothers, himalaya mountains [X]

A Mountain Food Chain

author: Tarbox, A. D
A look at a common food chain in the Rocky Mountains, introducing the ponderosa pine tree that starts the chain, the mountain lion that sits atop the chain, and various animals in between.
577.5
year: 2016
copies: 3
call number/section: 577.5
lexile: 1240

Avalanche Alert

author: Burchett, Jan
A snow leopard and her cubs have been separated from their territory by an avalanche in the Himalaya Mountains, and it is up to Ben and Zoe to find the rare cats and guide them to safety before the local villagers poison them.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650

World Above The Clouds

author: Nagda, Ann Whitehead
A young snow leopard hunts among the other animal inhabitants of her snow-covered home in the Himalayan peaks of northern India.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: snow leopard, leopard, zoology, himalaya mountains [X]

The Lastling

author: Gross, Philip
While hunting for rare and endangered species with her uncle in the Himalayas, fourteen-year-old Paris learns about humanity and friendship from Tahr, a twelve-year-old Buddhist monk who is trying to protect a young yeti.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: survival, survival skills, yeti, conduct of life, hunting, himalaya mountains [X]

The Snow Leopard

author: Morris, Jackie
As her time comes to depart, the sacred snow leopard who brought the stars to life searches for a replacement whose song can protect the Mergich Realm from the soldiers coming in search of slaves and gold.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1180
subjects: snow leopard, snow leopards, himalaya mountains [X]

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