Author : William Durbin
Publisher : Scholastic Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 33,91 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780439153065
Desperate to survive during the Dust Bowl, C. J. Jackson and his family leave the panhandle of Oklahoma and head west to California, where they hope to make a better life for themselves.
Author : William Durbin
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 2002-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780613455954
Acclaimed author William Durbin takes readers to the Oklahoma panhandle where C.J. Jackson and his parents are struggling through the Dust Bowl.
Author : William Durbin
Publisher : New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub.
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 21,56 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 044041184X
In 1800, 13-year-old Pierre La Page never imagined he'd be leaving Montreal to paddle 2,400 miles. It was something older men, like his father, did. But when Pierre's father has an accident, Pierre quits school to become a voyageur for the North West Company, so his family can survive the winter. It's hard for Pierre as the youngest in the brigade. From the treacherous waters and cruel teasing to his aching and bloodied hands, Pierre is miserable. Still he has no choice but to endure the trip to Grand Portage and back.
Author : C. J. Box
Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 49,20 MB
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0857891863
A good friend and fellow game warden has killed himself, and Joe Pickett's been chosen to temporarily run his district. But Jackson, Wyoming, is a far cry from Joe's hometown of Saddlestring - and it doesn't help that now Joe feels compelled to investigate the circumstances surrounding his friend's suicide. But as he comes closer to the truth, the more his own life spirals out of control - and he realizes that if he isn't careful, he may be Jackson's next victim...
Author : C. J. Box
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 15,61 MB
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101196564
Don’t miss the JOE PICKETT series—now streaming on Paramount+ A mountain patrol leads Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett into a dangerous situation in this gripping novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box. It's Joe Pickett's last week as a temporary game warden in the mountain town of Baggs, Wyoming, but his conscience won't let him leave without checking out the strange reports coming from the wilderness: camps looted, tents slashed, elk butchered. What awaits him is like something out of an old campfire tale, except this story is all too real—and all too deadly.
Author : C. J. Box
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 13,50 MB
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0399575731
Don’t miss the JOE PICKETT series—now streaming on Paramount+ Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett's hunt for a missing woman forces him to confront his own past in this gripping novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. Ranch owner and matriarch Opal Scarlett has vanished under suspicious circumstances during a bitter struggle between her sons for control of her million-dollar empire. Joe Pickett is convinced one of them must have done her in. But when he becomes the victim of a series of wicked and increasingly violent pranks, Joe wonders if what's happening has less to do with Opal's disappearance than with the darkest chapters of his own past. Whoever is after him has a vicious debt to collect, and wants Joe to pay...and pay dearly.
Author : Rodman Philbrick
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 12,45 MB
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1338692305
"Soon we will eat the frozen cattle.... And then, when that is gone, what shall we eat?Shall we eat the snow? Shall we eat the ice? Shall we eat the bark on the frozen trees?What shall we eat?"Spring, 1846: Douglas Allen Deeds dreams of starting a new life out West. When the opportunity to join the Donner Party Expedition arises, he leaves the life he's known behind to set out on the nearly 2,000-mile trek from Independence, Missouri to sunny California.But progress is slow. Brutal heat, poisoned water, and rough terrain slows the expedition down. Soon they have a choice: continue on the known but grueling trail, or take a shortcut that would cut 350 miles from their journey-but take them through unknown territory. Is it worth the risk?Winter comes quickly in the mountains, and the wrong choice could leave them stranded in the Sierra Mountains when the snow comes, with no shelter, supplies, or even food.Newbery Honor-winning author Rodman Philbrick brings to life the excitement, danger, and horrors of the Donner Party's journey west.
Author : William Durbin
Publisher : Scholastic
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 16,73 MB
Release : 2003-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780439555005
In 1905 fifteen-year-old Otto describes in his journal how he travels from Finland to America, joining his father in a dreary iron mining community in Minnesota and becoming involved in a union fight for better working conditions.
Author : Katelan Janke
Publisher :
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 48,53 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780439215992
A twelve-year-old girl keeps a journal of her family's and friends' difficult experiences in the Texas panhandle, part of the "Dust Bowl," during the Great Depression. Includes a historical note about life in America in 1935.
Author : C. J. Box
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 27,26 MB
Release : 2004-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101204591
Don’t miss the JOE PICKETT series—now streaming on Paramount+ Joe Pickett’s pursuit of a killer through the rugged mountains of Wyoming takes a horrifying turn when his beloved foster daughter is kidnapped in this thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. It's an hour away from darkness, a bitter winter storm is raging, and Joe Pickett is deep in the forest edging Battle Mountain, shotgun in his left hand, his truck's detached steering wheel handcuffed to his right—and Lamar Gardiner's arrow-riddled corpse splayed against the tree in front of him. Lamar's murder and the sudden onslaught of the snowstorm warn: Get off the mountain. But Joe knows this episode is far from over. And when his own daughter gets caught up in his hunt for the killer, Joe will stop at nothing to get her back...
