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 Bluebonnet Award Nominee
Where the Pirates Are
by Tom Townsend
An excellent choice
for young Texans who love history, the tall ships and the lure of
treasure. Written in the spirit of Tom Sawyer.
96 pages, 5.5 x 8.5
in., glossary, reading level 5.7 Paperback.... 553-4.... $ 5.95
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 Wilderness
Walkers: Naturalists in Early Texas
written and illustrated by Betsy Warren
Johnny Appleseed
wasn't the only nature lover to wander the frontier. Texas has its share also.
Naturalalists came from throughout the United States and Europe to study
the plants and animals native to Texas.
112 pages, 7 in. x
9 in., illustrations, author's notes, bibliography, time line, locations
of collections, glossary
Hardback.... 026-5.... $ 8.95
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 Women &
Children of the Alamo
by Crystal Sasse Ragsdale
Everyone knows the
epic saga of the fall of the brave defenders left alive to tell the tale,
but there were survivors-more than a dozen women and children who did
live through the ordeal to tell their tales.
128 pages, 6 x 9
in., illustrations, bibliography
Paperback.... 012-X.... $14.95
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 You're an Orphan
Molly Brown
by Mary E. Pinson
With her ma dead, her
pa away on a cattle drive, and even her twin brother separated from her
Mollie Brown really feels like the orphan her cousin Luke says she is.
Aunt Nettie and Uncle Ben are good to her, but life on the North Texas
plains in the 1870s can be harsh, and Luke frightens her with his
spitefulness and jealousy.
128 pages, 5.5 x
8.5 in., reading level 5-7
Paperback.... 263-5.... $8.95
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 A Yank Among Us
by Wanda Dionne
High adventure story
of a fourteen-year-old free black union soldier captured in the battle of
Sabine Pass. Enslaved on a plantation near Hempstead and angry at the
treatment of Blacks, he threatens to run away but learns that freedom is
more a state of mind-the ability to make choices.
176 pages, 5.5 x
8.5 in., reading level 6.0 Paperback.... 108-6.... $12.95
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