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Author
Language
English
Description
After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode.
3) Scumble
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Mibs's cousin Ledge is disappointed to discover that his "savvy"--the magical power unique to each member of their family--is to make things fall apart, which endangers his uncle Autry's ranch and reveals the family secret to future reporter Sarah.
4) Shane
Author
Language
English
Description
In this true Western classic Jack Schaefer tells the story of a mysterious stranger who finds himself in the Wyoming Territory joining local homesteaders in their fight to keep their land and avoid the intimidating tactics of cattle driver Luke Fletcher. While trying to leave his gunslinging days behind him, the mysterious stranger, Shane, is tested by Fletcher and his men. In Shane, Schaefer executes a perfect Western narrative while exploring
...Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 20 cm
Language
Español
Description
After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode.
6) Boundless
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"As the battle against the Black Wings and Their minions looms on the horizon, part-angel Clara Gardner is finally ready to fulfill her destiny, even though she knows she may have to make the ultimate sacrifice"--
Author
Series
Mother-Daughter Book Club volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Four very different friends in Concord, Massachusetts, and their mothers continue their book club, reading Jean Webster's "Daddy Long-Legs, " while getting to know their own pen pals from Wyoming.
Author
Series
Flicka trilogy volume 1
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First Harper Trophy edition.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Through his intense devotion to the colt Flicka, a young boy living on a Wyoming ranch begins to learn about responsibility and gain a better understanding of his brusque father.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1993.
Physical Desc
28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Text and photographs follow ten-year-old Justin Whitlock through the summer when he and his older brother Corey helped their father with an important cowboy job on their Wyoming ranch.
10) Red dog
Author
Language
English
Description
Living with his family in the rugged, often dangerous, Wyoming mountains in the 1860's, twelve-year-old Adam finds his courage put to the test when he is left in charge of the household during his stepfather's absence.
11) Skies like these
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
231 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While visiting her eccentric aunt who lives in Wyoming, twelve-year-old Jade befriends a boy who believes he is a descendant of Butch Cassidy.
13) The haymeadow
Author
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old John comes of age and gains self-reliance during the summer he spends up in the Wyoming mountains tending his father's herd of sheep.
14) Snowed in
Author
Publisher
Bradbury Press
Pub. Date
[1993]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Snowed in for the winter at their Wyoming frontier home in the early twentieth century and unable to attend school, Grace and Luke keep busy reading, studying, singing, and sharing stories.
15) Dinosaur hunter
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Wyoming in the 1880s, a young boy fulfills his dream of finding a dinosaur skeleton on his father's ranch, outwits a man who would cheat him, and sells his find to a team of fossil hunters.
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Margaríta Sandoval's family moves to Wyoming during the Great Depression, she faces racism, homesickness, and the possibility that her grandmother's land in New Mexico may be lost.--
17) Hopepunk
Author
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After her sister runs away, teenager Hope Cassidy rebels against her conservative family by starting a rock band with her former crush, Danny, who is kicked out of his house when he comes out to his family"--
Growing up in a conservative Christian household, Hope Cassidy spent her whole life being told that the devil speaks through Led Zeppelin. Her sister, Faith, can't be honest about dating the record shop cashier, Mavis. When their youngest sister...
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