Books with title Faces in the Mountains

An RNA Romantic Novel Award nominee.From shipwreck and heartbreak to treachery and war: can their love survive?Abandoned as a baby and raised in a remote lighthouse off the wild Northumberland coast, Alice Fairchild has always dreamed of adventure. When a fierce storm wrecks a ship nearby, she risks everything in an act of bravery that alters the course of her life.Aboard the doomed vessel is the handsome John Sinclair, a Scottish soldier on his way to India. The connection between them is instant, but soon fate intervenes and leaves Alice heartbroken and alone. Determined to take charge of her destiny but secretly hoping her path will cross again with John’s, she too makes a new start in colonial India.Life there is colourful and exotic, but beneath the bright facade is an undercurrent of violence, and when the British invade Afghanistan, Alice is caught up in the dangerous campaign. When at last she hears news of John, she is torn between two very different lives. But will she follow her head or her heart?

Frog is missing! He's lost in the mountains.Can Wren, a spunky, nature-loving, explorer find her missing cousin? With her new dog, Rattler anything is possible. Meet Wren Frankenberger, a bright and curious 10-year-old, who wanders the Tennessee mountains behind her house, learning, sketching, and adventuring. Nothing will get in the way of Wren finding her cousin. Bears, snakes and blueberry patches won’t slow her down!Will Wren’s wit and wilderness experience save her cousin? Will Rattler prove his worth? Get it now, and join the adventure!Especially for teachers! This story has a glossary of new vocabulary words perfect for classroom use (grade 2-3).

Walnut and Twigbud are brother squirrels. Their mother dies. Walnut decides to follow the mythic stories of Old Willow and climb the Mountain to face the Great Spirit and learn why squirrels are hunted and killed and live alone in fear. He seeks to beg the Great Spirit for a new life. Along the way, the robots that have taken over the city - this was Atlanta, Georgia, once - hunt down what is left of humans with no knowledge of consequences or why.Walnut and Twigbud and Maple and Sunflower will climb the mountain, and seek to know a new way.

Boma and his father are nature giants in Vomper Creek, located in the midst of mountains and meadows. Together, Boma and his father, help the nature beings manage the natural world they all live in. When Boma’s father needs to sleep for hundred years, Boma is worried he won’t be able to remember everything his father taught him. It’s up to Boma to make sure everything in nature runs smoothly.Boma must learn to face his fear of failure and forgetfulness and use his creativity to solve challenges. Follow along as Boma develops the confidence to find his own path in nature with the help of other nature’s beings. The Face in The Mountain will help your child discover the inner-workings of nature and that everything in nature is connected and impacted by one another.

Yanked from her Crusade team and sent as an envoy to an alien planet, Kaia finds herself alone and unsure how she will accomplish her mission. When an unexpected, yet familiar face is there to greet her upon arrival to Planet Danu, Kaia’s unease grows. Kaia and her new team must navigate through the ruins of a dying planet, make their way into the mountains, and find the captured Crusaders they were sent to rescue. And then the real challenges will begin. Kaia will have to pledge herself to Ajax’s brother, meet with the with the leader of the Resistance, whose motives and sanity seem to be faltering, and try to keep her brother from falling for one of the resister’s-a crime in the eyes of her government. With news that Ajax is on his way to Danu, Kaia must decide if she will continue to be the Crusader she was meant to be, or follow her heart and risk losing everything.

Jarod is a snowboarder and is stuck taking care of his younger sister, Jennifer, who is a beginning skier. When a bully threatens the two, Jarod convinces Jennifer to ski out-of-bounds to avoid a conflict. They venture into the restricted area and Jennifer watches in horror as her brother is buried in an avalanche. Will Jennifer be able to rescue her brother and, together, will they be able to find their way to safety?

There are nine individual books in The Adventures of Archibald & Jockabeb series. The books should be read in order. The second book in the series is In the Mountains. The setting for second book in The Adventures of Archibald and Jockabeb series shifts from an eerie forest close the two brothers’ Midwestern home, to a remote mountain range in the western United States. When Archibald and Jockabeb leave home to board a plane, they are completely unaware that they’ll be the only two campers at Camp Bear Claw that summer. When they arrive at the camp, the boys find out that there are only two other people there—Gran, the elderly woman who owns the Camp Bear Claw, and Ben, the ranch hand who helps her. Worse yet, they soon hear stories from Ben about the strange and suspicious circumstances under which Gran’s husband, Walt, died a terrible death, together with how a deadly creature might well be roaming in the mountains nearby.When the boys leave camp early one morning with Ben and Gran’s old dog, Champ, to hike high in the mountains to find Tommy Two Feathers, an old Indian who may shed some light on whether the rumors are fact or fiction, they have no idea that what they ultimately learn will connect back to Haktu and his tribe. After being joined by a white wolf named Ghost Rider, the boys, Ben, Champ, and Tommy Two Feathers set out solve a mystery that has gone on for over a century. As danger looms at almost every turn, Archibald and Jockabeb hope that the magic blue feather they received from Haktu really does have the power to protect them.The reader once again has the opportunity to watch the two brothers’ personalities evolve, especially Jockabeb. And, as in the first book, the classic battle between the forces of good and evil play out—only this time in rarified mountain air.