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2) Indio
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Ipa struggles to survive a brutal time of change as the Spanish begin the conquest of the native people along the Texas border.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Six-time winner of the Golden Spur Award, Elmer Kelton crafts stories that carry listeners into some of the most vivid years of the American West. Texas Rifles is an action-filled tale of courage in the face of divided loyalties. In 1861, men are enlisting in the Texas Mounted Rifles to keep the land free from Indian raids. There are larger conflicts, however. Texas has seceded from the union while war brews between the North and the South. Sam Houston...
5) Badger boy
Author
Series
Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The Texas frontier. The Civil War is over and Texas is reluctantly yielding to the Union soldiers spreading across the state, even into the dangerous Comanche country. David "Rusty" Shannon, proud member of a "ranging company" attempting to protect Texas settlers from Indian depredations, finds that the rangers are being disbanded.
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
English
Description
The sequel to #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber's classic Someday Soon!
When stubborn but proper Texas postmistress Letty Madden hires a rough soldier, Jack Murphy, to help her find her brother for the price of one night together, she has no idea that he will fall deeply in love with her.
7) Texas
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree Steck-Vaughn
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces the history, geography, natural resources, people, and industry of the "Lone Star State."
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1684, wearing his father's faded cap, eleven-year-old Pierre Talon joins explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier on an ill-fated expedition to seek the Mississippi River, but after the expedition falls apart Pierre, deathly ill, is taken in by Hasinai Indians. Includes historical facts.
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"As a young child, Herman Lehmann was captured by a band of plundering Apache Indians and remained with them for nine years. This is his dramatic and unique story. His memoir, fast-paced and compelling, tells of his arduous initial years with the Apache as he underwent a sometimes torturous initiation into Indian life. Peppered with various escape attempts, Lehmann’s recollections are fresh and exciting in spite of the years past. Lehmann provides...
12) Bluebonnet girl
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Story of a Comanche legend of a young girl whose great sacrifice saves her land and people from drought.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lucy Jorik is a champ at never embarrassing the family she adores -- not surprising since her mother is one of the most famous women in the world. But now Lucy has done just that. And on her wedding day, no less, to the most perfect man she's ever known. Instead of saying "I do" to Mr. Irresisitible, Lucy flees the church in an ill-fitting blue choir robe and hitches a ride on the back of a beat-up motorcycle plastered with offensive bumper stickers....
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
No one in the tiny town of Boothill, Texas, knows the real Shaun Murphy--and that's the way he likes it. But he can't hide from the pretty young postmistress, Letty Madden. Letty's brother is missing, and Murphy can help her find him. but when Letty comes to him for help, he makes her a very indecent proposal.--From publisher's description.
15) Top soldier
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Pierce Braden was six when his father left Texas to fight for the Confederacy. When his father returns after the war refusing to talk about it, Pierce thinks he must be a coward until he learns the truth during an Indian raid"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
His arrows Fly Straight into the Hearts of His Enemies was the Comanche name given him when Daniel Killstraight was young. The name change came after he was sent to Carlisle Industrial School, where he joined other frightened Indian youths--Lakotas, Cheyennes, Kiowas, and Pawnees. After his return to the reservation, Killstraight became a native police officer, called a Metal Shirt. Now Killstraight and another young Comanche, Charles Flint, are...
17) Courageous
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The life of a paid mercenary makes sense to Special Forces Officer Winslow Grange. The jungles of South America may make his former job as a ranch manager for his friend Jay Pendleton look like a cakewalk, but it's nothing that the former Green Beret can't handle.A woman's heart, however-that's dangerous territory. Back in Texas, Grange's biggest problem was avoiding Peg Larson and all the complications being attracted to the daughter of his foreman...
19) Black fox
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1994, c1972
Language
English
Description
For decades the Texas plains ran with the blood of natives and settlers, as pioneers carved out ranch land from ancient indian hunting grounds and the U.S. Army turned the tide of battle.Led by the remarkable waarrior, Little Buffalo, the Comanche and Kiowa are united in a campaign to wipe out the settlers forever.