I take a deep breath and stare at the glacier-capped Wind River Mountains. My quarter horse Hank has probably seen this view a hundred times, but he...
Dude Ranching at an Outlaw Haunt
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Letters From the Corrugated Castle
AGES 10-14: Fictionalized corres-pondences to and from a girl, Eldora, living in Gold Rush California from 1850-1852 provide the narrative of this...
What They Got Right
It is a rare day indeed when an author admits, “They were very faithful to my book.” Ron Hansen is one of those happy writers. Hansen tells us five...
There Was a Coyote Who Swallowed a Flea
AGES 4-8: Do you remember the old woman who swallowed a fly? Now imagine that a coyote in the Southwestern desert has a similar gastronomical...
Thunder Rose
AGES 4-8: Thunder Rose possesses special powers from the day she is born with thunder and lightning coursing through her veins. She is able to put...
Frog Brings Rain
AGES 5-8: Patricia Hruby Powell retells a folktale that she first read in Frances Newcomb’s Navajo Folktales. This lively tale was kept alive by...
The Wild West Pop-Up Book
AGES 5-15: Creating a book which accurately relates the history of “Going West” from Boone to the “Cattle Kingdom” of the 1880s would seem an...
Paint the Wind
AGES 7-10: After Maya’s parents are killed in an auto accident, she finds herself living with her very restrictive grandmother. The only memories of...
Rising Fawn and the Fire Mystery
AGES 9-11: The 1830s was a decade stained by the removal of Indians to reserved land in the West. Seven-year-old Rising Fawn’s peaceful life with...
Journey to San Jacinto
AGES 9-12: In the second of the “Mr. Barrington’s Trunk” series, Melodie Cuate has created an exciting tale about three average students who become...
Cowboys and Coffin Makers
AGES 9-12: Thinking of becoming a woodhawk, mule spinner or iron puddler? Laurie Coulter is masterfully creative in describing the changes taking...
(Not Really) Roughing It on the Mark Twain Trail
By jingo, does everybody in Hannibal, Missouri, think he’s Mark Twain—the driver on the tour bus, the guide at the Mark Twain Cave, even Mark Twain...