ranch life

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Daughter of Madrugada

2002
Thirteen-year-old Cesa de Haro's beloved way of life on the beautiful Rancho del Valle de la Madrugada is threatened by Mexico's loss of Upper California to the United States in 1846 and the arrival of gold seekers from the east.

Iris Wall, cracker cowgirl

2012
A picture-book biography of Florida rancher Iris Wall, describing her childhood in Indiantown in southern Florida, where she learned at her father's side how to cow-hunt and care for cracker cattle and to break and ride cracker horses, a tradition she has carried out through her long life and handed down to her own daughters.

Dinosaur hunter

2003
In Wyoming in the 1880s, a young boy fulfills his dream of finding a dinosaur skeleton on his father's ranch, outwits a man who would cheat him, and sells his find to a team of fossil hunters.

Clarence goes out West and meets a purple horse

2000
While visiting a western ranch, Clarence the pig plays cards, line dances, plays the washtub in a cowboy band, and reads stories at bedtime with his new friend Smoky the purple horse.

The case of the falling sky

2005
After Hank the Cowdog, Head of Ranch Security, collects clues from the chickens and the cat that indicate that the sky will fall, he springs into action to keep the ranch safe.

Come, llamas

2005
Nine-year-old J.T. Kinnaman is given his first llama to raise on his family's Alaskan ranch.

Holding the reins

a ride through cowgirl life
2003
Explores a year in the life of four teenage cowgirls as they live and work on their home ranches in Utah, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, and New Mexico.

Storm Chaser

2009
When a fire forces her family to turn their home into a guest ranch, aspiring horse trainer Jessica finds herself working once again with her favorite horse, Storm Chaser, to tame the wild filly for snobbish, spoiled Ariel, Storm Chaser's future owner.

Chicken Foot Farm

2008
Alejandro grows from ten years old to the age of seventeen, learning about life from his extended Mexican American family on a small ranch in 1940s South Texas.

Changes for Josefina

a winter story : 1824
2000
When T?a Dolores, the beloved aunt who has cared for the Montoya family since the death of their mother, announces that she is planning to leave, Josefina and her sisters try to find a way to change her mind.

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