Download or read book Callie Shaw Stable Boy written by Judy Alter and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No girl's allowed! No girls are allowed to work in the racing stables . . . Not even with your aunt's permission!" How many times had Callie heard the man say it? Not that Aunt Edna would ever agree anyway. Aunt Edna always said that horse racing coming to Texas brought "the devil amongst us," but Callie figured she knew better. The horses were so beautiful and the races so exciting, it just couldn't be bad. Callie also knew something else—even though she was a girl, she must find a way to be a stable boy.
Download or read book Katie s Baby Sitting Job written by Martha Tolles and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s not easy being a baby-sitter when you’re playing detective, too! Katie thought baby-sitting would be fun! Katie was thrilled when Mrs. Stellan called and asked her to baby-sit for the evening. She had never done any baby-sitting before, but she was sure she could take care of three-year-old Annie. After all, Katie had watched her brother plenty of times. This would give her some real job experience—and she'd be paid for it, too! But Katie's first baby-sitting job doesn't turn out the way she'd planned. Something is missing from the Stellans' house, and though it wasn't her fault, Katie's sure everybody's blaming her. It's bad enough that hardly anyone believes her—but now mean Michelle is telling everyone at school what happened. Katie knows she's got to get to the bottom of the mystery soon. Because if she doesn't, she may never be hired as a baby-sitter again! "...the clues are well placed, the pace is lively, and the characters nicely realized. Tolles also integrates a warm boy-girl relationship for added appeal." —Booklist
Download or read book School Library Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 1198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Best Books for Children written by Catherine Barr and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Katie for President written by Martha Tolles and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Run for president? Against cool, sophisticated Lynne Colby? Katie Hart isn't sure she should even try—but her girl friends are, and she has the boys' vote too. It looks as though Katie will win, until someone starts an ugly rumor about her. Katie knows it isn't true —but how can she prove it? And who did start the fire that Katie discovered in the science room?
Download or read book Callie Shaw Stableboy written by Judy Alter and published by Sunbelt Media. This book was released on 1996 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book places Saint Augustine's theology in a new and illuminating context by considering what he has to say about beauty. It demonstrates how a theological understanding of beauty revealed in the created, temporal realm enabled Augustine to form a positive appreciation of this realm and the healing power within it. It therefore reintroduces aesthetics alongside philosophy and ethics in Augustine's treatment of God. Unlike previous works, it shifts the emphasis away from Augustine's early and most theoretical treatises to his mature reflection as a bishop and pastor on how God communicates with fallen man. Using his theory of language as a paradigm, it shows how divine beauty, revealed in creation and history, serves to inspire fallen man's faith, hope, and most especially his love--thereby reforming him and restoring the form or beauty he had lost.
Download or read book Best Books for Children Preschool Through Grade 6 written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maggie and the Search for Devildust written by Judy Alter and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second adventure of Maggie and Devildust, Maggie survives her year at Miss Porter's School for Girls in Kansas City, and returns home to Texas to continue her training of Devildust and to complete her plans to join the Mulhall Wild West Show. But the theft of Devildust and Lucille Mulhall's love for Pete the cowboy may combine to end Maggie's dreams of life as a trick rider in a wild west show. "Another fine read—well written, exciting, affirmative in its values."—Judyth Rigler, Lone Star Library
Download or read book After Pa Was Shot written by Judy Alter and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AFTER PA WAS SHOT After her pa is shot in a turn-of-the-century Texas gunfight, 12-year-old Ellsbeth James has no time to go chasing off after the killer. She has to buckle down and take care of her mother and siblings, B.J., Little Henry and Maggie. "Time and place come to life in Alter's bright, atmospheric novel set in Center, Texas during the early 1900s." —Publishers Weekly "Minor characters are exceptionally well drawn, and the whole concoction is as full of old time Texas flavor as a piece of Ellsbeth's special chicken-fried steak." —New York Times "Characters skillfully drawn through dialogue and action, an exciting and plausible plot, and a spunky, engaging heroine add up to a fine novel." —School Library Journal
Download or read book Children s Book Review Index written by Gary C. Tarbert and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gator the Cowpony Goes to School written by John N. Campbell and published by Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum. This book was released on 1997-03 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tending cattle or riding in rodeos, a small grey pony earns the respect of the cowboys on a Texas ranch.
Download or read book Maggie and Devildurst Ridin High written by Judy Alter and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maggie and Devildust—Ridin' High! In this adventure of Maggie and Devildust, Maggie, an eighteen-year-old cowgirl at the turn of the century, realizes her dream of starring in a Wild West show in Madison Square Garden with her beloved horse Devildust.
Download or read book Children s Books in Print written by R R Bowker Publishing and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 1999-12 with total page 1282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Stirring Prose written by Deborah Douglas and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stirring Prose: Cooking with Texas Authors is a delightfully revealing look at some of Texas's best writers. Initially conceived as a Who's Who of Texas authors, Deborah Douglas quickly realized that asking authors to write about their favorite recipes freed them from "the big toe-digging constraints of having to talk directly about themselves. The resulting off-center reflections are brilliant slices of their personalities and their writing styles." A traditional cookbook this is not. Each author contributed to Stirring Prose in a personal, distinctive way. Billy Porterfield reveals his fantasies about a voluptuous restaurant owner and a dream-enhanced recipe for "game hen fricassee with a French New Guinea twist." Sunny Nash gives us an enticing snapshot of her grandmother, Bigmama, and divulges the secret to beautiful skin with Bigmama's Mysterious Rose Water Splash. And John Erickson shares his Bachelor Cowboy's Delight, the meal he eats over and over when his wife and children are out of town, and which consists of steak, lettuce salad, and green peas. Robert Flynn, Liz Carpenter, Elmer Kelton, and thirty-three others also share their recipes and food stories. Some of these recipes, such as Dr. [Larry L.] King's Asian Flu Hot Liquid Life-Saver, almost beg for a "do not try this at home" warning. Others, such as Cindy Bonner's Bohemian Kolaches and Clay Reynolds's Tex-Mex Breakfast, will inspire readers to start cooking. All are enticing for their tasty prose. Each recipe is accompanied by a photograph, a publication list, and an engaging, personalized introduction by Douglas, herself a fine writer, funny and charming. Although not an exhaustive collection of Texas writers, Stirring Prose: Cooking with Texas Authors is a tantalizing peek at thirty-nine talented Texas writers and their work.
Download or read book Maggie and a Horse Named Devildust written by Judy Alter and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maggie and a Horse Named Devildust Life for most young girls on the West Texas plains at the tum-of-the- century was routine with school, household chores, and sewing instruction. But not for Maggie. Much to the dismay of her parents, she loves to ride, to rope and to live the life of a cowgirl. When the gorgeous wild horse she names Devildust comes into her life, it's love at first sight. Maggie is determined to train Devildust, herself, and has secret plans to make him much more than just a cowpony. And she has plans for herself, too, that include a life filled with adventure and excitement and wild west shows—a life that no one else had planned for her! "Maggie is a spunky and engaging heroine whose growing pains and triumphs will be shared by all young readers."—Judyth Rigler Lone Star Library
Download or read book Katie and the Recluse written by Judy Alter and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Adventures of Katie Sheridan who learns to accept people as they are... KATIE AND THE RECLUSE While her own family is breaking up in Ponder, Texas, in 1954, thirteen-year-old Katie Sheridan is determined to get to know the town recluse, Miss Ina Fay Bagley. Miss Bagley has not left her big house in the middle of town in more than fifty years. Katie's mom is just the opposite; she wants to work outside her home, a daring idea in the 1950s. As Katie focuses on making her new friend, and on keeping her old ones, she begins to understand her parents and she learns to accept people as they are.
