Lower Alabama Bigfoot

Author: Ashley R. McPhaul
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665539933
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 140

Book Description
In two neighboring Alabama counties, each with several sleepy communities, hunters are being run out of the swamps, farmers are having their livestock threatened and mauled, and locals are hearing unearthly screams and howls. To have so many reports from one small area seems unusual, but that’s what is happening in lower Alabama. This book is a journey into those reports. What started with a roadside crossing that made the local newspaper and a local radio station morning show quickly escalated into Evergreen being named the Bigfoot Capital of Alabama. People have started talking about their own experiences and no one, including the author, could have foreseen all the stories that were out there. There are Bigfoot reports from all over the world and there have been many movies and books written. The uniqueness of this book is that most of the terrifying stories are within 30 miles of each other. Many are within 10 miles. Bigfoot is no longer just a myth in lower Alabama!

Alabama Moon

Author: Watt Key
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1429987650
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
In this compelling, action-packed book, Watt Key gives us the thrilling coming-of-age story of the unique and extremely appealing Alabama Moon, the basis for the film of the same name starring Jimmy Bennett and John Goodman. For as long as ten-year-old Moon can remember, he has lived out in the forest in a shelter with his father. They keep to themselves, their only contact with other human beings an occasional trip to the nearest general store. When Moon's father dies, Moon follows his father's last instructions: to travel to Alaska to find others like themselves. But Moon is soon caught and entangled in a world he doesn't know or understand; he's become property of the government he has been avoiding all his life. As the spirited and resourceful Moon encounters constables, jails, institutions, lawyers, true friends, and true enemies, he adapts his wilderness survival skills and learns to survive in the outside world, and even, perhaps, make his home there. This title has Common Core connections. Alabama Moon is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Terror at Bottle Creek

Author: Watt Key
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374374317
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195

Book Description
In this gritty, realistic wilderness adventure, thirteen-year-old Cort is caught in a battle against a Gulf Coast hurricane. Cort's father is a local expert on hunting and swamp lore in lower Alabama who has been teaching his son everything he knows. But when a deadly Category 3 storm makes landfall, Cort must unexpectedly put his all skills-and bravery-to the test. One catastrophe seems to lead to another, leaving Cort and two neighbor girls to face the storm as best they can. Amid miles of storm-thrashed wetlands filled with dangerous, desperate wild animals, it's up to Cort to win-or lose-the fight for their lives. This title has Common Core connections.

The Bigfoot Files

Author: David Childress
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1948803593
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 395

Book Description
Does a giant hairy apelike creature roam the forests and swamps of North America? If so, this huge creature has managed to keep pretty well hidden, but is seen from time to time. Bigfoot is seen lurking in the shadows of strip malls in the Pacific Northwest and photographed walking across a stream or hiding behind a tree. He is watching hikers as they move through the forest and occasionally kidnaps children or murders solitary people who are in the woods. Childress gives us the latest bigfoot sightings and photos and looks at how the hairy giant has crept into the American psyche as time goes on. Childress starts at the beginning, telling the story behind an apparent bigfoot photo from the 1800s, and the tale of how the creature got its name in the 1950s. Bigfoot is present throughout the country, and Childress relates stories of sightings Back East, in the American Southwest, California and Pacific Northwest. He discusses bigfoot that make lots of noise, and presents photos throughout, including a special eight-page color photo section.

Fourmile

Author: Watt Key
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250039959
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
A mysterious stranger arrives at a boy's rundown Alabama farm home, just as a dangerous situation is unfolding for the twelve-year-old and his widowed mother.

The White Mountain Bigfoot

Author: Bobby Clark
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781094717494
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 59

Book Description
This story is set in the mid 1800s. The cowboy character is rescued from a renegade Apache band by a Bigfoot family and his wounds are cared for. Once he is well he has the opportunity to repay the Bigfoot family for their kindness that involves adventure down into Mexico and in a surprising twist that the reader has to pay close attention not to miss the build up he also finds romance. This is an enjoyable mix of old fashion cowboy and Indian battles and Bigfoot lore. The author has done a superb job of mixing the two.

The World Book Encyclopedia

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 554

Book Description
An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.

Deep Water

Author: Watt Key
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
ISBN: 0374306540
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271

Book Description
When a dive off the coast of Alabama goes horribly wrong, 12-year-old Julie and one of her father's scuba clients struggle to survive after reaching an abandoned oil rig.

Little Bigfoot, Big City

Author: Jennifer Weiner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481470787
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
After discovering that she is not human, twelve-year-old Alice Mayfair is on a mission to find out who and what she is, but she must do it alone because her best friend Millie Maximus, an undersized Bigfoot who lives in the forest near Alice's school in upstate New York, is focused on fulfilling her dream to sing for a nationally televised talent competition.

Dirt Road Home

Author: Watt Key
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1429933356
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222

Book Description
The story of of the orphan boy Moon, begun in Watt Key's award-winning Alabama Moon, continues with Dirt Road Home After his recapture, gutsy 14-year-old Hal Mitchell is sentenced to live at Hellenweiler, an institution that is more like a jail than the boys' home it's supposed to be. Hal could walk out in just a few months if he keeps out of trouble. But in a place like Hellenweiler, the more he tries to avoid the gangs and their violence, the stronger Hal's fellow inmates try to make him fail. This title has Common Core connections. "Key does a fabulous job of keeping his readers involved in the story and vested in the characters. Even reluctant readers will most likely find this one hard to put down." -- VOYA