West Routt Library District

A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.

The smallest and bravest one is Madeline, whose adventurous spirit and outrageous antics have delighted boys and girls for over seventy years. Now even the youngest readers can enjoy this timeless favorite in a sturdy board book format.

Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.

A girl tries to play with several different friends and they all run away. Will she be able to play with anyone?

Brian is on his way to Canada to visit his estranged father when the pilot of his small prop plane suffers a heart attack. Brian is forced to crash-land the plane in a lake--and finds himself stranded in the remote Canadian wilderness with only his clothing and the hatchet his mother gave him as a present before his departure. Brian had been distraught over his parents' impending divorce and the secret he carries about his mother, but now he is truly...

Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.

The job was to take a herd of longhorns across Texas to New Mexico and a fertile graze. For Dan Killoe it meant a chance to prove himself to his father and the hands who worked along Cowhouse Creek. It also meant riding alongside the man who was like a brother to Dan, a dashing gunman named Tap Henry. But there was a lot about Tap Henry that Dan didn't know.

Egan comes to Instep to visit his relatives, and climbs Knee Knock Rise to find a practical explanation for the wails that makes everyone shudder in horror when they hear them.

A shy, lonely six-year-old wanders into the Canadian prairie and spends a summer under the protection of a badger. Based on a true story.

The author explains how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer.