Nancy Oswald
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In 1882, ten-year-old Emma and her family, along with other Russian Jewish immigrants, arrive in Cotopaxi, Colorado, where they face inhospitable conditions as they attempt to start an agricultural colony, and lonely Emma is comforted by the horse whose life she saved.
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Series
Description
Buster would rather ignore his brainy sister Maggie's insect zoo, but he needs her help with the carnival fundraiser for his baseball team, the Cougars. Unfortunately, Buters needs more than fundraising help from his siters. His failing math grade is at a full count-one more strike and he won't be abel to playh in the game against the three Pirate bullies: Chewy, Ace, and Rip. The town of Ashville may never be the same after these rival teams clash....
Author
Series
Ruby and Maude adventures volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
In 1896 Ruby Mae Oliver, her father, and her best friend, Maude, the donkey are stranded in Cripple Creek when Ruby's father decides that she need a proper upbringing and sends her to school.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
In 1864, Hides Inside, a mute thirteen-year-old Cheyenne, wants nothing more than to be taken seriously as a hunter and warrior, but after witnessing the Sand Creek Massacre he must choose for himself between fighting the brutal white soldiers or working toward peace.
Author
Series
Ruby and Maud adventure volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011], ℗♭2011
Description
"Rescue in Poverty Gulch transports the reader to 1896 Cripple Creek, Colorado, where gold was in the hills and the town was booming. Ruby May Oliver and her donkey, Maude, are happy with things just the way they are, traveling with Pa to mining camps to sell candlesticks to miners. However, life changes drastically when Ruby and her Pa are stranded in Cripple Creek. Spending days in a schoolhouse when she already knows her numbers and how to read,...
Author
Series
Ruby and Maude adventures volume 3
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Ruby May Oliver lives a good life on the rugged Colorado mountain trails of the 1890's with her pa. As the author tells us, Ruby "had faced mountain lions, grizzlies, wolves, rattlesnakes, and angry badgers; she'd hiked miles through a snowstorm, had her toes frozen, her nose frost-nipped, and climbed to the top of tall peaks." In "Trouble Returns", the third in the series, she faces her greatest challenge yet--school. With the help of Maude and Trouble,...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Trouble on the Tracks, the second Ruby and Maude Adventure book, returns readers to the Cripple Creek mining town of 1896. Ruby May Oliver and her donkey and best friend, Maude, find a new friend when a cat named Trouble entwines itself around Maudes legs and Rubys heart. Trouble and the adventurous eleven-year-olds Ruby and Maude try to stay out of trouble during the chaos following two fires in one week that have nearly destroyed the town. Can...
Author
Series
Ruby and Maude adventures volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Trouble on the Tracks, the second Ruby and Maude Adventure book, returns readers to the Cripple Creek mining town of 1896. Ruby May Oliver and her donkey and best friend, Maude, find a new friend when a cat named Trouble entwines itself around Maudeś legs and Rubyś heart. Trouble and the adventurous eleven-year-olds Ruby and Maude try to stay out of trouble during the chaos following two fires in one week that have nearly destroyed the town. Can...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"It's Christmas Eve 1896 in the boomtown of Cripple Creek, Colorado. Eleven-year-old Ruby and her donkey, Maude, search the town for Maude's missing four-month-old foal. Surprises await them at the end of the journey, and the gifts Ruby shares along the way demonstrate that the true spirit and joy of Christmas is giving"--
