Desert Rose And Her Highfalutin Hog
Upon finding a large gold nugget on her pig farm, Desert Rose sets out to buy the biggest, fattest hog in Texas to enter in the state fair, but first she must get the hog to Laredo and every animal she asks for help is just as "ornery" as the hog.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 920
The Texas Wildfires
Describes what wildfires are, how they can get started, how to prevent wildfires, and the people who fight them.
363.37
year: 2007
copies: 1
call number/section: 363.37
lexile:
The West Texas Chili Monster
Unexpected things happen when Mama's rip-roarin', root-n-tootin', rip-snortin' chili attracts a space monster to the West Texas chili contest.
FIC
year: 1998
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Kylie Jean, Blueberry Queen
Kylie Jean Carter is hoping to become Blueberry Queen at the annual Blueberry Festival.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 620
Kylie Jean, Hoop Queen
Kylie Jean Carter is hopeless at basketball but still wants to win the Free Throw Tournament and become the Little Dribbler Queen.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 500
Singing Queen
Kylie Jean Carter plans to sing in the annual Fourth of July Jubilee talent show.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 580
Spelling Queen
Kylie Jean is studying hard for the spelling bee at school, but she keeps getting distracted by the kitten that she and her cousin Lucy found.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 590
Pictures, 1918
Coming of age in a rural Texas community in 1918, fifteen-year-old Asia assists in the local war effort, contemplates romance with a local boy, and expands her horizons through her pursuit of photography.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: photography, country life, world war, 1914-1918, coming of age, historical fiction, texas [X]
Dead Man's Bones
China Bayles delicate balance between family, work, and friends is threatened when the theater premiere she is working on is disrupted after one of theater's patrons is killed in what the police consider an act of self defense but China believes is murder.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: bayles, china (fictitious character), women detectives, community theater, spelunkers, herbalists, texas [X]
Judge Roy Bean
Chronicles the life of Wild West peacekeeper Roy Bean, the judge and saloon keeper who bent the law to maintain order in west Texas.
920
year: 1995
copies: 3
call number/section: 920
lexile: 760
Jubilee Journey
Emily Rose has always felt comfortable growing up in Connecticut with her African American mother and her "French American" father, but when they spend some time with her great-grandmother in Texas, Emily Rose learns about her black heritage and uncovers some new and exciting parts of her own identity.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 880
subjects: racially mixed people, african americans, great-grandmothers, identity, individuality, texas [X]
Texas In Words And Pictures
A brief introduction to the land, history, cities, industries, and famous sites of the Lone Star State.
976.4
year: 1981
copies: 4
call number/section: 976.4
lexile:
subjects: texas [X]
Jack And The Giant Barbecue
When Jack's mother tells him how his father died when a giant stole his barbecue recipes, Jack vows to find the giant and retrieve the book.
398.2
year: 2012
copies: 8
call number/section: 398.2
lexile: 580
Texas
An introduction to Texas, covering the state's location, history, flower, seal, flag, capital, goods, and more.
976.4
year: 2013
copies: 4
call number/section: 976.4
lexile:
subjects: texas [X]
Moonshiner's Gold
In Canadian, Texas, in 1927, not long after his father's death, Riley and his fiddle-playing grandfather must find a way to save the family ranch from a group of moonshiners and the men behind their operation.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640