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Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Adelaide Proctor longs to find a real-life storybook hero to claim as her own. But when a husband-hunting debacle leaves her humiliated, she interviews for a governess position on a remote Texas sheep ranch and vows to leave her silly romantic yearnings behind. Gideon Wescott left his privileged life in England to make a name for himself in America's wool industry, never expecting to end up with a child. To his dismay, five-year-old Isabella hasn't...
Author
Series
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When a Texas Ranger comes to town on a mission to capture his brother's killers, he finds more than he expected--including a young midwife who may hold the key to the justice he seeks.
When her husband is murdered and her baby stillborn, there is nothing left for Thea Michener in Ladreville. She accepts a position as Cimarron Creek's midwife. When a Texas Ranger turns up on her doorstep with an abandoned baby, she can't turn him away. Ranger Jackson...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tom Doherty
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1875, nearly forty years after the Mexican War, Mexicans and Texans are still spilling blood over ownership of the Nueces Strip--a hot, dry stretch of coastal prairie that bushwackers and horse thieves have turned into a lawless hell.
Captain L.H. McNelly, a complex and determined Confederate veteran, is brought into the Nueces Strip for one purpose: to keep the peace. His measures are harsh and controversial--but McNelly wasn't sent in to be...
Author
Series
Publisher
Square Fish/Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In rural Texas in 1901, thirteen-year-old Callie nurses a butterfly with a broken wing and delivers a baby lamb, despite her mother's disapproval of Callie's "unladylike behavior."
Author
Series
Publisher
Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Calpurnia and her grandfather rescue a barn owl from the river and, with the help of Dr. Pritzker, dead mice, and some detective work, nurse it back to health.
Author
Series
Publisher
Integrity Publishers
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Frontier life has been hard for Jerusalem Ann Hardin, who has already buried her husband and two of her sons. Now she can only pray as she watches her brother and son march off to join Samuel Houston to defend their beloved Texas from Santa Anna. But Jerusalem's not easily kept down, so the feisty widow gathers up her family and follows her heart to a cattle ranch in Western Texas in search of a better life.Jerusalem has barely settled in when Kern,...
8) Skunked!
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When Travis discovers an abandoned baby skunk, he can't help but bring it home and take care of it. Stinky, as Travis names him, settles in pretty well. But when Travis discovers Stinky's litter-mate, Winky, who is in need of some help, things get complicated around the Tate house"-- Provided by publisher.
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