Brian Burks
2) Wrango
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When young George McJunkin leaves his home in Texas and joins a cattle drive along the Chisholm Trail, he experiences the hardships of being a Black cowboy after the Civil War.
3) Soldier boy
Author
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
A boy who grew up in the slums of late nineteenth-century Chicago runs away, joins the cavalry, and fights with General Custer in the battle of Little Big Horn.
4) Walks Alone
Author
Pub. Date
2000, c1998
Description
After a surprise attack leaves many of her people dead, fifteen-year-old Walks Alone, an Apache girl wounded in the massacre, struggles to survive and rejoin the refugee band.
Author
Series
Murphy novels volume 7
Pub. Date
1996
Description
Sheriff Al Murphy rushes to the aid of his friend Risa when her husband and sons disappear while on their way to report that cattleman Ben King has murdered two Mexican goatherders, but he finds that going up against King is no easy task until he gets help from unlikely allies.
Author
Series
Murphy novels volume 5
Pub. Date
1993
Description
Murphy, a former sheriff, stumbles upon a murder. He agrees to help the sheriff and accepts a job from Christine, sister of the murdered man. A compelling story about human capacity for destructiveness and for redemption.