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2561) Drover's secret life
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 53
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Dover, a dog, describes what his life was like before he came to live with Hank on the ranch.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
In 1964, Jaime Sonoro is Mexico's most renowned actor and singer. But his comfortable life is disrupted when he discovers a book that purports to tell the entire history of his family beginning with Cain and Abel. In its ancient pages, Jaime learns about the multitude of horrific crimes committed by his ancestors. And when the same mysterious figure from Antonio's timeline shows up in Mexico City, Jaime realizes that he may be the one who has to pay...
2564) Zoo force: Zoo force
Author
Series
Zoo force volume 1
Pub. Date
1997, 2003
Description
Zoo Force is better known around Freedom City, Texas as Enforcer Group #77, protectors of the La Tornada Trailer Park and thereabouts. For $12,126.80 a year and all the tongue protectors they could ever ask for, Ding and his friends Pythagoras, Prairie Dawg and Snowball do their part to keep folks safe.But when Enforcer Group #76 gets tired of seeing the only team in town ranked lower than them just kicking back and enjoying life, it just chaps their...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Appears on list
Description
Willow Havens is ten years old and obsessed with the fear that her mother will die. Her mother, Polly, is a cantankerous, take-no-prisoners Southern woman who lives to chase varmints, drink margaritas, and antagonize the neighbors—and she sticks out like a sore thumb among the young modern mothers of their small conventional Texas town. She was in her late fifties when Willow was born, so Willow knows she’s here by accident, a late-life afterthought....
2567) Sandhills boy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
p2007
Description
Born in 1926 to a struggling West Texas cowboy, Elmer toils beside the last generation of horse-riding cow-punchers. Nearsighted and convince he'll never be the cowboy his dad is, Elmer determines to become a writer. But as he struggles to persuade a disappointed father to let him attend the faraway University of Texas--and see writing as legitimate work--the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor and trigger events that carry bashful Elmer to the Austrian...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Danny Blackgoat, a sixteen-year-old Navajo, is labeled a troublemaker during the Long Walk of 1864 and sent to a prisoner outpost in Texas, where fellow captive Jim Davis saves him from a bully and starts him on the road to literacy--and freedom.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A high-action portrait of the infamous historical pirate who pursued high-seas ambitions as a youth before settling down in New Orleans describes how he became a respected businessman, made pivotal contributions to the War of 1812 and exposed a British invasion plot.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Big Jake Motley had been running the Big M spread in Texas for more than 30 years. In that time, he's driven thousands of head of cattle to market in Kansas. Now, while both the 19th century and the era of trail drives are coming to an end, Big Jake is determined to make one last drive to Kansas. The only thing is, he doesn't have the cowhands to move that much beef. He drafts his old friend, Chance McCandles, into service, and together, the two aging...
2571) Juneteenth
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Examines the history of Juneteenth and describes some of the ways the holiday is celebrated.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"A detailed and gripping account of the 1917 Camp Logan riots, which left eleven civilians, five policemen, and four soldiers dead and created conditions that sparked a nationwide surge of wartime racial activism. The resulting trial was considered the trial of the century at the time, and resulted in the hanging of thirteen black soldiers"--
2573) Ringo's tombstone
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Texas Ranger John Ringold rides into Tombstone on detached service. His mission - to go undercover as John Ringo and stamp out the gangs ravaging Wells Fargo in a string of unsolved robberies and murder. Ringo tackles the desperate job of running down the night-riding bandits, headed by the mysterious robber chieftan "Saguro," only to find himself hurled into a head-on confrontation with the Earps and Doc Holliday. Events build swiftly with Ringo...
2574) BBQ: Zoo force
Author
Series
Zoo force volume 3
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Come N' Get It! It's the latest adventures of Freedom City, Texas' lowest-ranked enforcer teams: Zoo Force and Not Zoo Force! Join Ding, Prairie Dawg, Snowball, and Pythagoras on a trip to the local book/record/video store! There they find a secret that may tear the team apart!
2575) Moon Lake
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Daniel Russell was thirteen years old when his father tried to kill them both by driving into Moon Lake. Daniel returns to the site of this traumatic incident and discovers something shocking in the wreckage.
2576) Dallas 1963
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Presents an account of the radicals, reactionaries, and extremists who turned Dallas into a city infamous for the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Author
Series
Zoo force volume 2
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Attention Space Travelers! You don't need a rocketship to get out of this world; some folks can do it over take-out Cajun food. Join Pythagoras the chicken, Snowball the polar bear, Ding the human, and, well, Prairie Dawg, on an adventure beyond space, beyond time, and just beyond them spicy fries. Yum! John Thomas and Jeremy Smith present "ZOO FORCE: Bean and Nothingness", the mindbending new installment in the saga of the defenders of the La Tornada...
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
In The searchers, a Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughter.
In Fort Apache, a calvary officer whose by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush.
In Rio Bravo, a Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody.
In The cowboys, a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers...