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"Brought in as chief investigator when a party of campers go missing, 32-year-old Felicity Harland must place her trust in a Navy SEAL turned park ranger when the investigation takes them from the wilderness to the streets of Los Angeles where the grisly truth comes to light"--
3) Cliff-hanger
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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Twelve-year-old Jack and his younger sister visit Mesa Verde National Park, where they delve into the park's history while gradually uncovering the mysterious past of their family's teenage foster child Lucky.
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2020
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"Hounded by false accusations of murder, archaeologist Chuck Bender and his family risk their lives to track down an unknown killer on the loose in a rugged canyon on the remote western edge of Mesa Verde National Park, where ancient stone villages and secret burial sites, abandoned centuries ago by the Ancestral Puebloan people, harbor artifacts so rare and precious they're worth killing over"--Provided by publisher.
5) Wolf stalker
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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Twelve-year-old Jack, his younger sister, and the family's teenage foster child Troy go to Yellowstone National Park, where Jack's mother, a wildlife veterinarian, is investigating the report that wolves reintroduced to the park have killed a dog there.
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2023
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In this third installment of Claire Kells's thrilling National Park mystery series, Investigative Services Branch agent Felicity Harland ventures through volcanic wilderness to investigate a murder at a new hike-in lodge at Pinnacles National Park. When a guest turns up dead at the newly opened Pinnacles Grand Hotel, ISB agent Felicity Harland finds herself summoned to a peculiar scene. A gentle breeze blows in from the balcony window, belying the...
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2022.
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While enjoying a rare weekend off from her duties as an agent with the Investigative Services Branch, Felicity Harland learns that a young couple has turned up dead in Gates of the Arctic National Park. Harland recruits her partner, ex-Navy SEAL Ferdinand “Hux” Huxley, to join her in the investigation. After processing the peculiar scene where the couple perished, Harland and Hux decide that this was no tragic accident. They soon hear about a...
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2023.
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"When Janelle Ortega's cousin from Mexico is found brutally murdered at a remote petroglyph site in Saguaro National Park, she and her husband, archaeologist Chuck Bender, are drawn deep into a threatening web of hostility and deceit stretching south across the US-Mexico border and back in time a thousand years, to when the Hohokam people thrived in the Sonoran Desert"--
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2019
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A famed sandstone arch in Utah's Arches National Park collapses and takes a woman atop it to her death, ensnaring archaeologist Chuck Bender and his family in lethal questions of environmental monkeywrenching and political intrigue. As more deaths follow, Chuck and his wife Janelle race to uncover the killer even as they become targets themselves.
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2015.
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Chuck Bender is running an archaeology field school for college students in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National park when the summer takes a deadly turn - Chuck must defend one of his team leaders from false accusations and finds himself in the crosshairs of an unknown murderer. Upon discovering a graveyard of majestic Rocky Mountain rams - all missing their valuable horns - Chuck knows he's dealing with a desperate killer who will stop at nothing....
12) Buried alive
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[2008], c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
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While their parents study why wolverines are disappearing from Alaska's Denali National Park, Jack and Ashley are stranded in a remote area with their mysterious new foster brother when a hit man's bullet triggers an avalanche.
13) The Hunted
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Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
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The Landon family travels to Glacier National Park to investigate why grizzly bear cubs are disappearing and become involved with a ten-year-old Mexican runaway boy.
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2021.
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When suspicious deaths befall a whitewater rafting expedition through Cataract Canyon in Canyonlands National Park, archaeologist Chuck Bender and his family recognize evil intent lies behind the tragedies. They must risk their lives and act before the murderer makes an already deadly journey on the Colorado River through Utah's red rock wilderness even deadlier--or turns on them instead.
15) Ghost Horses
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Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
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Visiting Zion National Park with his family, twelve-year-old Jack encounters two mysteries, the strange behavior of a band of wild mustangs and the possibly sinister actions of his new foster brother, a Shoshone boy.
16) Deadly Waters
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Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
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While visiting the Everglades National Park with their parents, the Landon children uncover the mystery of dying manatees and learn important lessons about the natural environment.
17) Valley of Death
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[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
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The Landon family makes a trip to Death Valley National Park accompanied by a mysterious new foster child, fourteen-year-old Leesa Sherman.
18) Out of the Deep
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Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Jack, Ashley, and their unreliable new foster sister set out to solve the mystery of why whales are beaching themselves at Acadia National Park.
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2016.
Description
When Yellowstone National Park's grizzly bears and gray wolves suddenly and inexplicably go rogue, archaeologist Chuck Bender teams with his old friend, Yellowstone Chief Ranger Lex Hancock, to defend the suspect members of a group scientific expedition. Soon, Chuck finds himself defending the lives of his family as an unforeseen danger threatens in the storied national park's remote wilderness.
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2018.
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"Archaeologist Chuck Bender arrives with his family in Yosemite Valley to study the 150-year-old murders of a pair of gold prospectors in the midst of preparations for the annual Yosemite Slam rock-climbing competition and a reunion with his old climbing buddies. The trip quickly turns threatening when one climber never shows up, climbing equipment fails, and Chuck and his wife, Janelle Ortega, are suspected in the shocking, present-day death of one...