Utah | Roxbury

Author

Description

We'll start with Utah's arches, made from wind, frost, and rain. Nature's rocky sculptures -- an art that can't remain.' From H is for Handcarts to Z is for Zion National Park, A is for Arches presents the history, landscape, and people of the great state of Utah.

2) Head West, Young Mouse: Transcontinental Railroad Traveler

Author

Horender, Philip

Description

Click to view

Experience historic events through the eyes of Maximilian P. Mouse, Time Traveler! Abraham Lincoln's inspiring speech has made Maximilian even more determined to save his home. Again, he is disappointed when the time machine takes him to the wrong place and time. Maximilian now finds himself farther away than ever-in Promontory Point, Utah. The year is 1869, and the time machine has landed in a caravan heading West. In one of the covered wagons,...

3) Desert diary: Japanese American kids behind barbed wire

Author

Tunnell, Michael O

Formats:

Book, eBook

Description

Click to view

"In March 1943, twenty-seven children began third grade in a strange new environment: the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah. Together with their teacher, Miss Yamauchi, these uprooted young Americans began keeping a classroom diary, with a different child illustrating each day's entry. Their full-color diary entries paint a vivid picture of daily life in an internment camp: schoolwork, sports, pets, holidays, health--and the mixed feelings of citizens...

4) Bashful

Author

Sargent, Dave

Series

Saddle up volume 1

Description

Click to view

Bashful is a dun-colored horse who helps his master the famous explorer Jim Bridger explore the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

5) The dinosaur tamer

Author

Greathouse, Carol

Description

Click to view

With the strength of an Iguanodon and the speed of a Utah Raptor, lasso-tossing, Pleiosaurus-riding Rocky is legendary. There isn't a dinosaur in the land that would think of giving Rocky a lick of trouble. That is, until he meets T. Rex, the rip-roarinaest, snip-snortinaest, flame-breathinaest reptilian ever to stomp the earth.