Joseph Monninger
1) The letters
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
199 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Sam and Hadley West are both trying in their own ways to survive after the unthinkable loss of their only son in Alaska. For Sam, a sports journalist, acceptance means an arduous trek by dogsled across the bleak and beautiful arctic wilderness to find the place where Paul died. For Hadley, it means renting a benignly haunted, salt-soaked cottage off the Maine coast where she begins to paint again. Now, at opposite ends of the country, waiting for...
2) Whippoorwill
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015].
Lexile measure
820L
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In rural New Hampshire, sixteen-year-old Clair Taylor and her neighbor, eighteen-year-old Danny Stewart, fall into an unlikely relationship as they work together to save Wally, a lovable but mistreated dog kept chained in a junk-filled yard by Danny's cruel father.
3) Crash
Author
Series
Stay alive volume 1
Pub. Date
2014
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
204 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the plane carrying the Junior Action News Team crash lands in Alaska, the group must try to stay alive in the wilderness.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Heather has graduated from college and is traveling around Europe with her two best friends. She's left school responsibility behind and adult responsibility is looming, but this is her one, one last summer to be free. Heather doesn't expect to even meet Jack, let alone fall in love with him. Jack is an enigmatic Vermonter a few years older than she is, who is following his grandfather's journal to various cities around Europe. But in the same way...
5) Game change
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When the first string quarterback is injured a week before the state championship game, Zeb Holloway finds himself starting and realizing he may have a future outside his rural New Hampshire town.
6) Cave-in
Author
Series
Stay alive volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
199 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A group of kids on a field trip on a coastal island are abandoned after an earthquake hits and the fort they are studying collapses. At first they are trapped inside but after escaping the cave-in, they realize debris from the collapse has destroyed all of their supplies.
Author
Series
Dragged from under volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Barn Whimbril is a shark-obsessed sixth grader living in Florida. When a deadly shark attack happens in a canal near his home, he heads off to the scene. As he tries to figure out what has caused these bull sharks to become more aggressive, Barn will face several hazards both in and out of the water.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Kate Moreton is in Ireland on sabbatical from her teaching position at Dartmouth College when she meets Ozzie Ferriter, a fisherman and a veteran of the American war in Afghanistan. The Ferriter family history dates back centuries on the remote Blasket Islands, and Ozzie--a dual citizen of Ireland and the United States--has retreated to the one place that might offer him peace from a war he cannot seem to leave behind. Beside the sea, with Ireland's...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2013, c2012.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
453 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Brought together by war, separated by duty, a love story for the ages.
Margaret Kennedy lives on a farm in rural Maine. Her husband, injured in a war overseas, will never be the man he was. When the president signs a bill in support of wounded veterans, Margaret is invited to the capital. Handsome foreign service officer Charlie King volunteers to escort her. As the rhododendron blossoms along the Blue Ridge Highway, they fall in love -- but Margaret...
10) Breakdown
Author
Series
Stay alive volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the bus carrying a group of kids home from summer camp breaks down on an abandoned road during a heatwave, the group must survive the elements and find help, over sixty miles away.
11) Flood
Author
Series
Stay alive volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A group of children must learn how to survive when their town is flooded and the electrical power goes out after a bad storm.
12) Wish
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
820L
Physical Desc
193 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While trying to help her eleven-year-old brother who suffers from cystic fibrosis get his greatest wish, fifteen-year-old Bee discovers that she has some special wishes of her own.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Physical Desc
224 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Determined to set an old horse free, sixteen-year-old Hattie and eighteen-year-old Delores head west in search of rangeland on a road trip that takes unexpected turns as the girls get their own taste of freedom and confront the reasons they left home.
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
196 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"After thirty-two years of teaching, Joe Monninger, an avid outdoorsman in robust health, was looking forward to a long retirement with the love of his life in a cabin beside a New England estuary. Three days after his last class, however, he's diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, even though he has not smoked for more than 30 years. It was May, and he might be dead by early fall. Soon Joe learned, however, that he was a genetic match for treatment...