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Starting the Colt
Illustrated by Pat Lehmkuhl Readers 9 to adult Retail price $12.00, 173 pages, paperback ISBN: 9781937849115 Copyright 2014, Raven Publishing Order: Raven Publishing, Author, Amazon Kindle $6.00 Read Chapters 1-2 Reviews Starting the Colt, the sequel to The Orange Slipknot, continues 12-year-old Ben Lucas's quest to prove he's tough enough to please his hot-tempered dad. The Nevada ranch where his dad cowboys is a man's world. His dad wants him to "buck out" some colts, but the old crusty cowboss, teaches him another way to start colts, and it looks like magic!
Ben fights fire, wrecks on his ATV, and gets kicked out of school for punching his buddy. When Ben and his dad break down in the middle of nowhere, Ben rides for help--on Fred's colt, Soapsuds, the colt Ben once owned and still thinks of as his. Ben's on his own and must make some tough choices. TEACHERS & HOMESCHOOLERS: Starting the Colt Curriculum Unit available for $10.00 at my TeachersPayTeachers store.
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The Orange Slipknot
Illustrated by Pat Lehmkuhl 178 pages, paperback Readers 9 to adult ISBN: 978-0-9772525-5-8 Retail price $12.00, Copyright 2007, Raven Publishing Order: Raven Publishing, Author, Amazon Smashwords price $6.00 Amazon Kindle $6.00 ISBN: 978-0-9820893-1-6 Book Trailer The grouchy old cowboss on the ranch where Ben's dad works
AWARDS Selected as the NEVADA BOOK for 2009 Library of Congress "National Book Festival" Pavilion of the States Finalist: ForeWord Magazine's 2007 Book of the Year Award Finalist: 2008 Moonbeam Children's Book Award Read Chapters 1 and 2 Readers Say..., Reviewers Say..., Flyer Distributors: Baker & Taylor, The Distributors, Follett, Partners, Western International
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