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Author
Publication Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bestselling author Stephanie Grace Whitson's latest historical novel features an adventurous young heroine who joins the Pony Express. Orphaned Annie Paxton and her brothers may have lost the only home they've ever known, but they're determined to make a better future in St. Joseph, Missouri. Annie dreams of a pretty house with window boxes, and having friends, and attending church every week. But then her brothers spot the ad for a new venture called...
Author
Series
Publication Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Young colt Sky was born with the urge to run. Alongside his band, he moves across the range searching for fresh water and abundant grazing. But humans have begun to encroach on Sky's homelands. With fewer resources to share, Sky knows that he must leave if his family is to survive. He hopes that one day, he'll be strong and brave enough to return and challenge the stallion to lead the herd. Being a lone wild horse in a vast landscape is not easy,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Publication Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
While living at a pony express station, Annie, age 11, asks Billy Cody to help her find out who was responsible for sabotaging her favorite pony, Magpie.
Author
Series
Disney's American frontier volume 10
Publisher
Disney Press
Publication Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
James Hickok's toughness and courage is put to the test when he takes over the pony express stationmaster of Rock Creek, Nebraska.
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Publication Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Description
In 1861, 11-year-old Bronco Charlie has already been a sailor and a cowboy, but his biggest challenge comes when he gets the chance to ride for the Pony Express. In comic book format.
10) Clem's chances
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Publication Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In 1860, fourteen-year-old Clem Fontayne learns from fellow travelers about important topics of the day, including the Mormon migration, slavery, and the Pony express, as he journeys from Missouri to California in search of his father.
Author
Publisher
Erewhon Books
Publication Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An orphan caring for her heavily pregnant sibling disguises herself as a boy to take a job on the Pony Express, where she partners with a young man hiding his own secrets and a mixed-race youth trying to defend his freedom.
When Jessamine Murphy finds a recruitment poster for the Pony Express, she's looking for adventure-- and a chance to track down her wayward father in California. Eager to reunite her fractured family, Jessamine cuts her hair,...
12) Fast 'n Snappy
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Publication Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Description
Fast the alligator and Snappy the frog, the best pardner a Hop-to-It Express rider ever had, speed west with an important letter from President A. Blinkin while Gila Joe and his snakes try to stop them at every turn. Includes facts about the Pony Express.
13) Canyon of danger
Author
Series
Goldtown adventures volume 3
Publisher
Kregel Publications
Publication Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Jem Coulter couldn't be more excited. His sheriff father must escort a prisoner to Sacramento, and he's leaving the ranch in Jem's care. ... However, Jem quickly discovers that being the 'man of the family' for two weeks is not how he imagined it. Everything goes wrong. A wolf threatens the herd, and an injured stranger invades the Coulters' lives. Then Jem's horse goes missing, along with Pa's good rifle ... Jem won't let his father...