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1) Shadowmaker
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When Katie and her mother move to a small Texas town, they never imagine that violence will interrupt their stay. Could the two bodies have anything to do with them? And what about the shadowy figure?
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Hank the Cowdog volume 56
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When Hank the Cowdog hears reports that coyotes are planning to go after the chickens, he manages to resist the temptation to join them and instead thwarts their attack, earning Sally May's forgiveness, and persuading Loper to stop feeding him Cheapo brand dog food.
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Hank the Cowdog volume 51
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With the threat of prairie fires looming, security expert Hank the Cowdog takes on extra duties as Head of Fire Safety, while trying to resist the mouth-watering hens in Sally May's chicken house.
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Calpurnia Tate volume 2
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"In rural Texas in 1900, when a storm blows change into town in the form of a visiting veterinarian, twelve-year-old Callie discovers a life and a vocation she desperately wants. But with societal expectations as they are, she will need all her wits and courage to realize her dreams"--
6) Old Yeller
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When a novel like Huckleberry Finn, or The Yearling, comes along it defies customary adjectives because of the intensity of the respouse it evokes in the reader. Such a book, we submit, is Old Yeller; to read this eloquently simple story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country is an unforgettable and deeply moving experience. Set in the rough wilderness of early frontier Texas, "Old Yeller" is a timeless coming-of-age tale. Travis is left to...
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The bullies called him coward. But it was on a day at a carnival in Abilene that an old Incian medicine man made an astonishing prophecy: "Some men spend their lives searching for who they are-searching for their courage. You will see yourself in the eye of the great bear." When the man's prophecy came true, Bailey had to make a choice that risked his life.....
8) Canyons
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Finding a skull on a camping trip in the canyons outside El Paso, Texas, Brennan becomes involved with the fate of a young Apache Indian who lived in the late 1800s.
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There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road.
A calico cat, about to have kittens, hears the lonely howl of a chained-up hound deep in the backwaters of the bayou. She dares to find him in the forest, and the hound dares to befriend this cat, this feline, this creature he is supposed to hate. They are an unlikely pair, about to become an unlikely family. Ranger urges the...
11) Savage Sam
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The story of fifteen-year-old Travis, and of how he, his little brother, and a neighbor were captured by Apache raiders. Travis escaped and helped to rescue the other children, but it was Savage Sam who tracked down the raiders.
12) Caleb's choice
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While living in Texas in 1858, fourteen-year-old Caleb faces a dilemma in deciding whether or not to assist fugitive slaves in their run for freedom.
17) White lilacs
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c1993
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In 1921 in Dillon, Texas, twelve-year-old Rose Lee sees trouble threatening her black community when the whites decide to take the land there for a park and forcibly relocate the black families to an ugly stretch of territory outside the town.
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Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
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2001
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In Canadian, Texas, in 1927, not long after his father's death, Riley and his fiddle-playing grandfather must find a way to save the family ranch from a group of moonshiners and the men behind their operation.