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21) Look out below!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
440L
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Workers mine for gold in Lego City.
22) Against the odds
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"There's silver out there. Sabrina Eckhart is sure of it. And when she finds the hidden mine on that big piece of West Texas desert, all of her financial problems are solved. That is, if she can find it. The man with the skills she needs is private investigator Alex Justice-a former navy fighter pilot and a current pain in the neck. When mysterious "accidents" start to plague their search, it seems Rina's multi-acre inheritance might be more a curse...
Author
Series
Cluckshroom chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Kiri, Oscar, and Malik meet up after school to play an adventure in Minecraft Earth, they stumble upon a secret door that takes them out of the real world above and whisks them into a hidden underground mineshaft. Transformed into their Minecraft avatars, they must now face Minecraft monsters that are all too real. And as they try to help a band of lost villagers beset by giant poisonous spiders, they're confronted by the biggest Minecraft menace...
25) A single stone
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
267 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Every girl dreams of being part of the line--the chosen seven who tunnel deep into the mountain to find the harvest. No work is more important. Jena is the leader of the line--strong, respected, reliable. And--as all girls must be--she is small; her years of training have seen to that. It is not always easy but it is the way of things. And so a girl must wrap her limbs, lie still, deny herself a second bowl of stew. Or a first. But what happens when...
Author
Publisher
Holy Cow! Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
vii, 273 pages : 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Susan B. Ellingson (SB to those who know her) publishes a struggling newspaper with the help of a retired librarian. Near the mining town of Iron, Minnesota, waters split three ways along the Laurentian Divide, carrying minerals and contaminants to Hudson's Bay, the Great Lakes, and the Gulf of Mexico. When a corporation seeks a permit to dig for copper and nickel and store potentially harmful mining waste nearby, locals divide into pro-mining and...
27) Rare earth
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
363 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Conducting an undercover investigation into Kenya's corruption-prone obscure-metals industry, Marc Royce, posing as a relief organization auditor, forges an unexpected bond with an Israeli medical administrator who is offering humanitarian aid to local refugees.
28) The aftermath
Author
Series
Asteroid wars volume 4
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
396 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humankind's expansion beyond the solar system in The Aftermath. In the wake of the Asteroid Wars that tore across the solar system, Victor Zacharius makes his living running the ore-carrier Syracuse. When the Syracuse stumbles into the middle of a military attack on the habitat Chrysalis, Victor flees in a control pod to draw the attacker's attention away from his family. Now, as his wife...
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Wookiee is a girl's best friend! When Chewbacca meets young Zarro on an Outer Rim planet, he has no choice but to set aside his own mission to help her rescue her father from a dangerous mine.
31) Stitching Snow
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A futuristic retelling of Snow White in which seventeen-year-old Essie, a master at repairing robots and drones on the frozen mining planet Thanda, is pulled into a war by handsome and mysterious Dane after his shuttle crash-lands near her home.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Large print edition ; Unabridged.
Physical Desc
585 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Former army cavalryman Quill McKenna takes pride in protecting the most powerful man in Stonechurch, Colorado: Mr. Ramsey Stonechurch himself. But the mine owner has enemies, and after several threats on his life, mines, and family, Quill decides to hire someone to help guard the boss's daughter. Calico Nash, who knows more about scouting and shooting than cross-stitching, agrees to pose as Ann's private tutor. But between escalating threats and their...
33) Colter's Path
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jedediah "Jedd" Colter is a man with big dreams that go beyond the mountains of North Carolina. When he's offered a job of guiding the recently formed California Enterprise Company of Tennessee from Knoxville to the gold fields of California, Jedd knows that the opportunity is too good to refuse. The Sadler brothers promise him a cut of the fortune that mining brings them, but their real plan is to hit pay dirt by becoming merchants and cheat Jedd...
34) Minrs
Author
Series
MiNRS volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
620L
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Earth is running out of resources, so Melming Mining looks to space and launches the Great Mission to Perses, the newest planetoid in the solar system. It's humanity's only hope for survival. Christopher Nichols; his best friend, Elena Rosales; and their families are part of the first wave of colonists on Perses. They are ready to send a shipment of rare minerals and precious metal ore back to Earth when a communications blackout hits, separating...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
910L
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 23 cm.
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.
36) Bad Man's Gulch
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
A reformed gunman gets caught in a lawless mining town and has to resort to his old ways to survive.
Author
Publisher
Spotlight
Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
GN 560L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Abby traveled west to Rainbow Ridge to live with her father Barnabas T. Bullion at the Big Thunder Mountain gold mine, the brave young hero never thought she'd join a group of bandits to rob her own father's mine"--
Author
Publisher
Spotlight
Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
GN 550L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Abby traveled west to Rainbow Ridge to live with her father Barnabas T. Bullion at the Big Thunder Mountain gold mine, the brave young hero never thought she'd join a group of bandits to rob her own father's mine"--
40) Beholden
Author
Series
Fairest maidens volume 1
Publisher
Northern Lights Press
Pub. Date
[2020].
Edition
Jody Hedlund print edition.
Physical Desc
247 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Upon the death of her wealthy father, Lady Gabriella is condemned to work in Warwick's gem mine. As she struggles to survive the dangerous conditions, her kindness and beauty shine as brightly as the jewels the slaves excavate. While laboring, Gabriella plots how to avenge her father's death and stop Queen Margery's cruelty. Prince Vilmar of Scania enslaves himself in Warwick's gem mine as part of a royal test to prove himself the most worthy of...