Tucket's Travels

Tucket's Travels PDF Author: Gary Paulsen
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0307548430
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 561

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Fourteen-year-old Francis is heading west in a wagon train on the Oregon Trail when he’s kidnapped by Pawnees. His adventures during the two-year search for his family teach him how to live by the harsh code of the wilderness, and give readers an exciting panoramic vision of the West at a time of settlement and of war with Mexico. Along the way, Francis meets up with Mr. Grimes, a one-armed mountain man, and later rescues Lottie and Billy, children abandoned on the prairie. Together the three encounter bandits, soldiers, storms, eccentric travellers, and discover an ancient treasure. But the real treasure lies at the end of the trail—Tucket’s home.

Tucket's Travels

Tucket's Travels PDF Author: Gary Paulsen
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0307548430
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 561

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Book Description
Fourteen-year-old Francis is heading west in a wagon train on the Oregon Trail when he’s kidnapped by Pawnees. His adventures during the two-year search for his family teach him how to live by the harsh code of the wilderness, and give readers an exciting panoramic vision of the West at a time of settlement and of war with Mexico. Along the way, Francis meets up with Mr. Grimes, a one-armed mountain man, and later rescues Lottie and Billy, children abandoned on the prairie. Together the three encounter bandits, soldiers, storms, eccentric travellers, and discover an ancient treasure. But the real treasure lies at the end of the trail—Tucket’s home.

Mr. Tucket

Mr. Tucket PDF Author: Gary Paulsen
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 030780416X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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Fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is heading west on the Oregon Trail with his family by wagon train. When he receives a rifle for his birthday, he is thrilled that he is being treated like an adult. But Francis lags behind to practice shooting and is captured by Pawnees. It will take wild horses, hostile tribes, and a mysterious one-armed mountain man named Mr. Grimes to help Francis become the man who will be called Mr. Tucket.

Call Me Francis Tucket

Call Me Francis Tucket PDF Author: Gary Paulsen
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0440412706
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Alone. Francis Tucket now feels more confident that he can handle almost anything. A year ago, on the wagon train, he was kidnapped from his family by a Pawnee hunting party. Then he escaped with the help of the mountain man, Mr. Grimes. Now that he and Mr. Grimes have parted ways, Francis is heading west on his Indian pony, crossing the endless prairie, trying to find his family. After a year with Mr. Grimes, Francis has learned to live by the harsh code of the wilderness. He can cause a stampede, survive his own mistakes, and face up to desperadoes. But when he rescues a little girl and her younger brother, Francis takes on more than he bargained for.

Tucket's Home

Tucket's Home PDF Author: Gary Paulsen
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 037589005X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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Francis Tucket, Lottie and Billy have survived extraordinary, hair-raising adventures in their quest to find Francis's family, lost when he was kidnapped from a wagon train on the Oregon Trail. Now they meet up with a British explorer, bloodthirsty soldiers, and in a tragic, heroic encounter, with Jason Grimes, the mountain man. Their way is made more treacherous still by the secret they carry, the ancient gold they discovered in a Spanish grave. In this final adventure they head home at last, and an epilogue tells what happens to them on the Oregon frontier.

Tucket's Ride

Tucket's Ride PDF Author: Gary Paulsen
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0307548422
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Francis Tucket and his adopted family, Lottie and Billy, are heading west in search of Francis's parents on the Oregon Trail. But when winter comes early, Francis turns south to avoid the cold, and leads them right into enemy territory--the Mexican War of 1848. Francis and the children are captured by desperadoes, but loyalty, courage, and the element of surprise offer hope for survival.

The Legend of Bass Reeves

The Legend of Bass Reeves PDF Author: Gary Paulsen
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
ISBN: 0307513793
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Born into slavery, Bass Reeves became the most successful US Marshal of the Wild West. Many "heroic lawmen" of the Wild West, familiar to us through television and film, were actually violent scoundrels and outlaws themselves. But of all the sheriffs of the frontier, one man stands out as a true hero: Bass Reeves. He was the most successful Federal Marshal in the US in his day. True to the mythical code of the West, he never drew his gun first. He brought hundreds of fugitives to justice, was shot at countless times, and never hit. Bass Reeves was a black man, born into slavery. And though the laws of his country enslaved him and his mother, when he became a free man he served the law, with such courage and honor that he became a legend.

Brokenville

Brokenville PDF Author: Philip Ridley
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
ISBN: 9780748742929
Category : Children's plays, English
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Brokenville is written for a cast of 7. A group of survivors gather round a sleeping child to piece together its story and theirs. The Pilgrimage is for a cast of 13, plus chorus. It concerns two warring tribes, the shepherds and the goatherds.

Tucket's Gold

Tucket's Gold PDF Author: Gary Paulsen
Publisher: Paw Prints
ISBN: 9781439511961
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Fifteen-year-old Francis and the two children he has adopted travel across the Old West, evade Comancheros, discover a treasure, and wind up rich beyond their wildest dreams. Reprint.

The Crossing

The Crossing PDF Author: Gary Paulsen
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545748097
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78

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From the Newbery Award–winning, New York Times–bestselling author of Northwind. “A stark, moving portrait of Mexican poverty and street life.” —School Library Journal Fourteen-year-old Manny is an orphan in Juarez, Mexico. He competes with his bigger, meaner rivals for the coins American tourists throw off the bridge between Texas and his town. Across that heavily guarded bridge await a different world and a better existence. On the night when Manny dares the crossing—through the muddy shallows of the Rio Grande, past the searchlights and the border patrol—the young man encounters an old stranger who could prove to be an ally or an enemy. Manny can’t tell for certain. But if he is to achieve his dream, then he must be willing to risk everything—even his life. “Paulsen . . . is skilled at pace, incident and characterization, and he uses them to pull the reader to the memorable—and powerful—last scene . . . A book for older children and teenagers who will not want to put it down.” —Kirkus Reviews “Any work by such a proficient writer, who invokes a powerful sense of the tragic in readers young and old, is welcome indeed.” —Publishers Weekly

The Transall Saga

The Transall Saga PDF Author: Gary Paulsen
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
ISBN: 0307434036
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Find yourself in another world in The Transall Saga, the latest adventure from Gary Paulsen: Mark's solo camping trip to the desert begins as any other camping trip, until a mysterious beam of light appears. The trip turns into a terrifying and thrilling adventure when the light beam transports Mark into another time, and what appears to be another planet! Although he is searching for his way back to earth, in the meantime he is forced to make a life in this unknown world. He meets primitive tribes and shares the joy of human bonds, but this end of isolation in the new world also brings war and a struggle for power.