Books with title The Mountain Climber

Amber's mountain is beautiful, but it is a lonely place—until the day Anna arrives, bringing both her friendship and the will to teach Amber how to read. Suddenly, Amber's world is filled with a new magic and new challenges. But when Anna returns to the city, will Amber be able to keep reading on her own? "Heartwarming" —Publishers Weekly, starred review Tony Johnston's previous books include Grandpa's Song and Yonder (both Dial and Puffin). She lives in San Marino, California. Robert Duncan is a fine artist whose paintings have been exhi-bited throughout the United States. He lives in Midway, Utah.

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.

It’s 1961, and Harriet Elizabeth Oechsner has almost completed her sophomore year in high school, when she’s faced with the dreaded news that her family is moving again. This time it’s because her father Erik’s liberal theology and commitment to social justice has angered his parishioners, and he’s been forced to resign from his church after only a year as pastor. The resulting move thrusts the five members of the close knit Oechsner family into a community bathed in privilege, steeped in tradition, and staunchly resistant to change. Mountain Brook, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, is a community separated only by a mountain ridge from the struggle for human rights being waged on the other side. And yet, it’s a community so distanced by privilege and color from its parent city and the needs of the poor and disenfranchised within, that it may as well be on the other side of the world.Harriet must once again assume the role of the outsider adapting to another new school, her third in three years. Her encounters with new teachers and peers lead her into situations that are at times painful, lonely, embarrassing, shocking, and often humorous.Harriet’s adjustment to her new school is fraught by teenage angst and emotion; and, as a child of the Cold War and the civil rights era, she is thrust into the realities of injustice, separation, and the threat of nuclear holocaust. However, the story maintains a hopeful tone, as the plot is interwoven with themes of inclusiveness, loyalty, friendship, and reconciliation.Readers who fell in love with Hattie Robinson in Hattie’s Place and In the Fullness of Time, will be happy to know that Over the Mountain takes up two generations later, with Hattie’s granddaughter and namesake, Harriet, as the main character.

Jim Hartsell is a veteran educator who has worked with children for decades and has now written a story for children. By his admission, this simple book is about how small children see the world differently than adults. In The Mountain Climber, the small boy sees a magnificent mountain in the backyard. It is the biggest dream of this boy to travel away from home, climb the mountain, and stand triumphantly on the peak. However, he is continually dissuaded by his parents, who are distracted with everyday adult worries. Additionally, they see the mountain as a mere mound of dirt, not a massive mountain to be conquered. Soon, the boy and his trusted teddy bear have a chance to climb the mountain. They see interesting sights as they make the long journey upwards. Finally at the top, the boy is proud of his accomplishment. In celebration, he raises his teddy bear high, so teddy can appreciate the view on top of the mountain. Then, his mother calls him from the back porch. It is revealed that he has been in the backyard the entire time. But this does not diminish the enthusiasm the boy has for his victory over the mountain. The moral for a child is to always pursue your goals. For the parent, it is a pleasant reminder that our world looks completely different through the eyes of a child. Author Jim Hartsell has also written Sisyphus and the Itsy Bitsy Spider Working with Children, a book focusing on working with children who have behavioral or emotional problems by using a multifaceted approach centered on the needs of the child.

Everyone young or old can relate to 17-year old Jotty. She’s fiercely independent, stubborn, loyal to those she loves, and determined to do things her own way. We all have a bit of Jotty in us.A SLOW CLIMB UP THE MOUNTAIN is Jotty’s story, a girl living in small town Nevada where nothing much happens. The town is sheltered by Rattlesnake Mountain whose name caused shivers down Jotty’s spine. But Jotty is a fighter and climbs that mountain daring those rattlers to bother her! The same is true with the new principal at school, Jotty dares the principal to make her go to class. Jotty has it in her mind to drop out and get a job to help Ma, but there’s no place to work for an artist and dropout, until the unconventional principal, who goes by ‘Clyde’, of all things, proposes painting a mural. Jotty is torn, “does she work on the mural and go to class?” or “skip classes and watch someone else paint her mountain?”. The decision is hers and hers alone.

Edward Frederic Benson (24 July 1867 – 29 February 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. His friends called him Fred.E.F. Benson was born at Wellington College in Berkshire, the fifth child of the headmaster, Edward White Benson (later Chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral, Bishop of Truro and Archbishop of Canterbury), and Mary Sidgwick Benson ("Minnie").Benson was educated at Temple Grove School, then at Marlborough College, where he wrote some of his earliest works and upon which he based his novel David Blaize. He continued his education at King's College, Cambridge. At Cambridge, he was a member of the Pitt Club, and later in life he became an honorary fellow of Magdalene College.E.F. Benson was the younger brother of Arthur Christopher Benson, who wrote the words to "Land of Hope and Glory", Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson, author of several novels and Roman Catholic apologetic works, and Margaret Benson (Maggie), an amateur Egyptologist. Two other siblings died young. Benson's parents had six children and no grandchildren. E. F. Benson never married, and is likely to have been homosexual. Certainly this reveals itself through the camp humour of his novels, the implicit homoeroticism of his university works such as David Blaize (1916), his love of the company of handsome men, and his close friendships with known homosexuals such as John Ellingham Brooks with whom he shared a villa in Capri. Prior to the First World War the island was extremely popular with wealthy gay men.E. F. Benson was an excellent athlete, and represented England at figure skating. He was a precocious and prolific writer, publishing his first book while still a student. Nowadays he is principally known for his Mapp and Lucia series about Emmeline "Lucia" Lucas and Elizabeth Mapp.In London, Benson also lived at 395 Oxford Street, W1 (now the branch of Russell & Bromley just west of Bond Street Underground Station), 102 Oakley Street, SW3, and 25 Brompton Square, SW3, where much of the action of Lucia in London takes place and where English Heritage placed a Blue Plaque in 1994.Benson died in 1940 of throat cancer in University College Hospital, London.

Everyone young or old can relate to 17-year old Jotty. She’s fiercely independent, stubborn, loyal to those she loves, and determined to do things her own way. We all have a bit of Jotty in us.A SLOW CLIMB UP THE MOUNTAIN is Jotty’s story, a girl living in small town Nevada where nothing much happens. The town is sheltered by Rattlesnake Mountain whose name caused shivers down Jotty’s spine. But Jotty is a fighter and climbs that mountain daring those rattlers to bother her! The same is true with the new principal at school, Jotty dares the principal to make her go to class. Jotty has it in her mind to drop out and get a job to help Ma, but there’s no place to work for an artist and dropout, until the unconventional principal, who goes by ‘Clyde’, of all things, proposes painting a mural. Jotty is torn, “does she work on the mural and go to class?” or “skip classes and watch someone else paint her mountain?”. The decision is hers and hers alone.

Amber's mountain is beautiful, but it is a lonely place -- until the day Anna arrives, bringing both her friendship and the will to teach Amber how to read. Suddenly, Amber's world is filled with a new magic -- and new challenges. But when Anna returns to the city, will Amber be able to keep reading on her own?-- Heartwarming. -- Publishers Weekly, starred review

It’s 1961, and Harriet Elizabeth Oechsner has almost completed her sophomore year in high school, when she’s faced with the dreaded news that her family is moving again. This time it’s because her father Erik’s liberal theology and commitment to social justice has angered his parishioners, and he’s been forced to resign from his church after only a year as pastor. The resulting move thrusts the five members of the close knit Oechsner family into a community bathed in privilege, steeped in tradition, and staunchly resistant to change. Mountain Brook, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, is a community separated only by a mountain ridge from the struggle for human rights being waged on the other side. And yet, it’s a community so distanced by privilege and color from its parent city and the needs of the poor and disenfranchised within, that it may as well be on the other side of the world.Harriet must once again assume the role of the outsider adapting to another new school, her third in three years. Her encounters with new teachers and peers lead her into situations that are at times painful, lonely, embarrassing, shocking, and often humorous.Harriet’s adjustment to her new school is fraught by teenage angst and emotion; and, as a child of the Cold War and the civil rights era, she is thrust into the realities of injustice, separation, and the threat of nuclear holocaust. However, the story maintains a hopeful tone, as the plot is interwoven with themes of inclusiveness, loyalty, friendship, and reconciliation.Readers who fell in love with Hattie Robinson in Hattie’s Place and In the Fullness of Time, will be happy to know that Over the Mountain takes up two generations later, with Hattie’s granddaughter and namesake, Harriet, as the main character.