Well, that was different.  I'm not entirely sure I liked The Fighting Ground , but I definitely found it interesting!  Especially the id...

I picked this book for my 3rd-5th grade literature class at our homeschool co-op to read because I am focusing on the importance of settings...

I loved this book as a teen.  I loved this book again now. Streams to the River, River to the Sea  is a fictionalized account of Sacagawea...

Well.  Hmm.  What in the world is up with the ending of this book?  It's a cracking good Sackett adventure for 23 chapters, and then it...

Well, this was fun!  Like its predecessor, Bowdrie , this is a collection of ten short stories starring Chick Bowdrie, a Texas Ranger who ri...

This is such a fun, upbeat book!  It's set in 1947, when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball, but it's actually abou...

This Sackett book is mostly from the point of view of Echo Sackett, a sixteen-year-old girl on a mission: she needs to collect a sizable inh...

Well, this is by far my favorite Sackett book so far!!!  The entire thing was about surviving in the wilderness, living off the land, and de...

The Warrior's Path  had a much more focused plot than the previous two Sacketts books, which I appreciated.  Kin and Yance Sackett (sons...

You may have noticed this book was in my sidebar for like three months.  That's because I was savoring it.  For three months?  Indeed.  ...

This second book about Barnabas Sackett was a lot of fun.  But I don't think I liked it quite as well as Sackett's Land , mostly bec...

I've been meaning to read  Howl's Moving Castle for probably a decade now.  I even got it out of the library once, but took it back ...

I remember loving this book as a youngster.  Anything to do with American Indian life has always fascinated me, and when you add that to a s...

When I was a kid, one of my favorite TV shows was Five Mile Creek  (1983-85), which was "inspired by" The Cherokee Trail .  You ca...

Bowdrie  is a collection of short stories about Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie.  He's a sensible, intelligent, quick-witted Ranger who spend...

This Irene Kelly mystery really kept me guessing.  I was quite convinced the whole way through that one character I really liked was going t...

Well, that was extremely tense and thrilling.  Wow.  You know, I don't think I realized quite how attached I've become to Frank Harr...

I'm vexed with myself that it's taken me this long to read this book.  Because it is an absolute gem.  It's a tall tale told by ...

Ooooooh, this was far and away the best Irene Kelly book yet!  Also, it's the first one I've read this year that was not a reread, s...

What a perfect book to take on vacation!  This one galloped along at a terrific pace, and I really loved all the bits of Greek mythology tha...