texas

Presents an introduction to the state of Texas, in simple text with illustrations, describing its location, landscape, cities, and people.

The narrator describes the excitement of having the train pull into the town of Jacksonville, Texas, when he was a boy.

Following an act of vandalism against her father's girlfriend, a seventeen-year-old girl is paired by the court with an eccentric senior citizen whose hobby as a sleuth turns deadly.

Eighteen-year-old Barry competes in a non-sanctioned boxing match in hopes of helping his recently-widowed mother, unaware that his best friend and manager, Alby, has his own desperate need for a share of the purse that may put their friendship on the line.

Sixteen-year-old rebel Bliss Cavendar, miserable living in a small Texas town with her beauty pageant-obsessed mother, secretly joins a roller derby team under the name "Babe Ruthless," and her life gets better, although infinitely more confusing.

While working on a genealogy project for his seventh grade history class, Andy Bonner becomes determined to solve the mystery surrounding a distant relative who was accused of stealing the family fortune.

Lauren's misgivings about participating in a seance turn to real fear when two of the girls who participated in the event are murdered.

A collection of nine stories about Mexican American kids growing up in the Rio Grande Valley of southern Texas.