Books with author Sy Montgomery

2014 National Outdoor Book Award Winner in History / Biography Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, sixty-seven-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. By September 1955 she stood atop Maine’s Mount Katahdin, sang “America, the Beautiful,” and proclaimed, “I said I’ll do it, and I’ve done it.”Driven by a painful marriage, Grandma Gatewood not only hiked the trail alone, she was the first person—man or woman—to walk it twice and three times. At age seventy-one, she hiked the 2,000-mile Oregon Trail. Gatewood became a hiking celebrity, and appeared on TV with Groucho Marx and Art Linkletter. The public attention she brought to the trail was unprecedented. Her vocal criticism of the lousy, difficult stretches led to bolstered maintenance, and very likely saved the trail from extinction.Author Ben Montgomery interviewed surviving family members and hikers Gatewood met along the trail, unearthed historic newspaper and magazine articles, and was given full access to Gatewood’s own diaries, trail journals, and correspondence. Grandma Gatewood’s Walk shines a fresh light on one of America’s most celebrated hikers.

This 6-book boxed set of interactive, children's classics includes 6 books from the Choose Your Own Adventure series: Race Forever * Escape * Lost on the Amazon * Prisoner of the Ant People * Trouble on Planet Earth * War With the Evil Power Master.Widely commended for its appeal to reluctant readers, Choose Your Own Adventure is the 4th bestselling book series for children of all time.These books are different from other books you've read before. There are dangers, choices, adventures, and consequences ahead of you, and only YOU can decide what happens next. BEWARE...the wrong decision could end in disaster--even death. But don't despair, at any time YOU can go back to make another choice and change the path of your story.This action-packed boxed set takes YOU on over one hundred adventures: stop the scary Evil Power Master from destroying all the planets, zoom through the rocky African countryside on a high-speed race course, and save the rest of the elite research team from the creepy-crawly Ant People! At the bottom of every page, YOU must make a choice:If you choose to explore the nuclear waste problem first, turn to page 41.If you decide to head for the mysterious island, turn to page 40.This 6-book boxed set contains 6 bestselling books for readers ages 9-12 in a bright gift box:Race Forever by R. A. Montgomery takes YOU on a high-speed, high-stakes race car adventure through the rugged African countryside. Speed through the challenging racecourse over grasslands and mountains, putting your stamina and strategy to the test, encountering both crocodiles and crooks along the way!Escape by R. A. Montgomery takes YOU on an adventure to an alternate, near-distant dystopian universe in the future. Take on a secret spy mission to Dorado, the repressive police state that now occupies New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. Escape is a companion book to Beyond Escape!Lost on the Amazon by R. A. Montgomery takes YOU on an adventure to the magical Amazon River basin, home to the greatest biodiversity on planet Earth. Trek through the jungle and help the South & Central American forest people fight a tropical disease epidemic, while confronting evil spirits at every turn!Prisoner of the Ant People by R. A. Montgomery takes YOU on an otherworldly adventure as you fight off the feared Ant People, who have recently joined forces with the Evil Power Master. Battle the infamous villain, the Evil Power Master, as part of the Zondo Quest Group. Prisoner of the Ant People is a companion book to War With the Evil Power Master.Trouble on Planet Earth by R. A. Montgomery takes YOU on an ecological, crime-solving adventure as you and your magical brother try to figure out what is draining Earth's oil reserves. Challenge dangerous weather goons, meet mysterious beings from beyond, and save the world from imminent doom!War with the Evil Power Master by R. A. Montgomery takes YOU on an intergalactic space adventure to defeat the Evil Power Master once and for all! Face the most evil villain that's ever lived, explore the greater galaxy, and bravely lead the Lacoonian System Rapid Force team. War With The Evil Power Master is a companion book to Prisoner of the Ant People.

Do your like classic novels? This is it!Anne's House of Dreams is a novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. It was first published in 1917 by McClelland, Goodchild and Stewart.The novel is from a series of books written primarily for girls and young women, about a young girl named Anne Shirley. The books follow the course of Anne's life. It is set principally on Canada's Prince Edward Island, Montgomery's birthplace and home for much of her life.The series has been called classic children's literature, and has been reprinted many times since its original publication.Anne's House of Dreams is book five in the series, and chronicles Anne's early married life, as she and her childhood sweetheart Gilbert Blythe begin to build their life together. Wikipedia.This book includes:Literary speeches, mastercrafted by Lucy Maud Montgomery.Historical fiction of Canada´s context.Many adventures of the principal character, Anne Shirley.If you love classic novels, you must have it, so clic on Buy!

Rainbow Valley (1919) is the seventh book in the chronology of the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, although it was the fifth book published. In this book Anne Shirley is married with six children, but the book focuses more on her new neighbor, the new Presbyterian minister John Meredith, as well as the interactions between Anne's and John Meredith's children.The book is dedicated: "To the memory of Goldwin Lapp, Robert Brookes and Morley Shier who made the supreme sacrifice that the happy valleys of their home land might be kept sacred from the ravage of the invader." This refers to World War I, which is the main theme of the next and final book in the series, Rilla of Ingleside.

"In loving yet unsentimental prose, Sy Montgomery captures the richness that animals bring to the human experience. Sometimes it takes a too-smart-for-his-own-good pig to open our eyes to what most matters in life.”—John Grogan, author of Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst DogA naturalist who spent months at a time living on her own among wild creatures in remote jungles, Sy Montgomery had always felt more comfortable with animals than with people. So she gladly opened her heart to a sick piglet who had been crowded away from nourishing meals by his stronger siblings. Yet Sy had no inkling that this piglet, later named Christopher Hogwood, would not only survive but flourish—and she soon found herself engaged with her small-town community in ways she had never dreamed possible. Unexpectedly, Christopher provided this peripatetic traveler with something she had sought all her life: an anchor (eventually weighing 750 pounds) to family and home. The Good Good Pig celebrates Christopher Hogwood in all his glory, from his inauspicious infancy to hog heaven in rural New Hampshire, where his boundless zest for life and his large, loving heart made him absolute monarch over a (mostly) peaceable kingdom. At first, his domain included only Sy’s cosseted hens and her beautiful border collie, Tess. Then the neighbors began fetching Christopher home from his unauthorized jaunts, the little girls next door started giving him warm, soapy baths, and the villagers brought him delicious leftovers. His intelligence and fame increased along with his girth. He was featured in USA Today and on several National Public Radio environmental programs. On election day, some voters even wrote in Christopher’s name on their ballots. But as this enchanting book describes, Christopher Hogwood’s influence extended far beyond celebrity; for he was, as a friend said, a great big Buddha master. Sy reveals what she and others learned from this generous soul who just so happened to be a pig—lessons about self-acceptance, the meaning of family, the value of community, and the pleasures of the sweet green Earth. The Good Good Pig provides proof that with love, almost anything is possible.