Homer
2) Crater
Author
Series
Helium-3 novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In the twenty-second century, sixteen-year-old Crater Trueblood, who mines the moon for Helium-3 to produce energy for a desperate, war-torn Earth, undertakes a deadly mission that could mean the difference between life and death for every inhabitant of the moon.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Elsie Lavender and Homer Hickam (the father of the author) were high school classmates in the West Virginia coalfields, graduating just as the Great Depression began. When Homer asked for her hand, Elsie instead headed to Orlando where she sparked with a dancing actor named Buddy Ebsen (yes, that Buddy Ebsen). But when Buddy headed for New York, Elsie's dreams of a life with him were crushed and eventually she found herself back in the coalfields,...
5) Crescent
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Crater Trueblood, doubting the justice of the war he fights and the evil of enemies he was trained to hate, brings Crescent, an apparently female Crowhopper, to Moontown as his prisoner but soon both are fugitives, fleeing prejudice and cruelty in hostile territory.
Author
Series
Josh Thurlow novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The year is 1943 and World War II in the Pacific rages on, with Americans engaged in desperate battles against a cunning enemy. Coast Guard Captain Josh Thurlow is on hand at the invasion of Tarawa, as the U.S. Navy begins the grand strategy of throwing her marines at island after bloody island across the Pacific.
Author
Series
Josh Thurlow novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
8) Sky of stone
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Soon after paleontologist Norman "Pick" Pickford happens on a discovery in Montana that could prove to be revolutionary, a menacing visitor is murdered and Mike Wire, retired L.A. homicide detective and ranch foreman, realizes that the fossils may be worth killing for"--
Author
Series
Josh Thurlow novels volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English