United+States+-+Old+West

= Old West =

|| **__ The coach that never came __** || || **Historical note**: This book was a true incident in the American West's past. The western United States was the setting and most of the times are referring to the period of the later half of the 19th century. ||
 * ^  || ** Patricia Beatty ** ||
 * ^  || **Summary**: The book “the coach that never came” is about a thirteen year old boy named Paul Braun. He went to his grandmothers over the summer in Colorado. His grandmother gives him a heart-decorated belt buckle. That belt buckle had belonged to a relative. Paul and his friend that he had met wanted to find out who the belt buckle belonged too. Also a stage coach that had disappeared with out a trace it’s a 110-year old mystery that Paul and his friend wanted to find out and they wanted to find out who the belt buckle use to belong too. ||
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 * **Reviewed by**: autumn S.


 * Class**:H1 ||^  ||
 * || **Review**: I liked that it involved mystery . But I don’t know if I would read it again. ||
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|| **Historical note**: Many foreigners migrated there. There were treaties with foreign nations, and native peoples, political compromise, and military conquest there too. It is anywhere west of the Mississippi river. ||
 * [[image:http://syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=043905947X/LC.JPG width="135" height="200"]] || **__ Adaline Falling Star __** ||
 * ^  || ** Mary Pope Osborne ** ||
 * ^  || **Summary**: this book is about how a girl named Adaline is stuck in St. Louis while her dad explores the west. Her mama died a few years ago, and all Adaline can think about is her. Everyone thinks she’s mute although she can talk, she just doesn’t want to talk to her mean cousins. When she finds out her papa didn’t come back for her, she runs away with a stray dog she found. Later, her papa finds her, and moves to a rancher in the west. ||
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 * **Reviewed by**: Molly P.


 * Class**: H3 ||^  ||
 * || **Review**: I liked how she ran away with a stray dog, that at first doesn’t like, but then grows to love and show compassion towards it, and learns to care for it deeply. ||
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 * // to [[image:http://syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=0590926675/LC.JPG width="144" height="165"]] // || **__ Title of Book: So Far From Home __** ||
 * ^  || ** Author: Barry Denenburg ** ||
 * ^  || **Summary**: Mary’s aunt (Aunt Nora) would tell her about America, but she did not want to hear it she wanted to see it. When she got off of her ship to America from Ireland to live with her Aunt Nora she became a Irish mill girl. She meets new friends but hated her job as a spinner. After months and months of working she finally went back home to her home town of Ireland. ||
 * **Rating**: || **Historical note**: Nearly 2 million Irish people dragged from their homes to work at the mill. ||
 * **Reviewed by**: Barbara Merroth


 * Class**: W1 ||^  ||
 * || **Review**: What I liked about the book is that I learned a lot about life as a mill girl. ||
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 * //Copy and paste image here. Drag corner to reduce the size of the pix.//                //(approx. 1// // 1/2” x 2”) // || **__  Title of Book: Early Sunday Morning  __** ||
 * ^  || **  Author: Barry Denenberg  ** ||
 * ^  || **Summary**: This book Is about a little girl and her family whose dad travels around the USA for his job. After they just settled in at there home in Washington D.C. they were moved to live in Hawaii. Hen they were getting comfy the Japanese came along and ruined everything. As her dad went to help fight her mother was told to go help out in the hospital near town so her and her little sibling made a fort at their house and stayed hidden ||
 * **Rating**: || **Historical note**: The Japanese did a sneak peak at pearl harbor which was where the U.S.A. military boats were. They saw signs of the attack but never filed them. ||
 * **Reviewed by**: Barbara Merroth


 * Class**: W1 ||^  ||
 * || **Review**: I liked the book because it was full of adventure and it felt like I was in it. ||
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