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Introduces the history, geography, natural resources, people, and industry of the Lone Star State.

A young Comanche boy experiences his tribe's conflicts with the Tejanos in 1840s Texas.

With a team of recalcitrant longhorns pulling his sleigh, "Santy" pays a visit to a family on the Texas prairie, bringing gifts and Christmas cheer.

An overview of the history of the struggle between the Texas settlers and Mexico's General Santa Anna for control of Texas, with a detailed description of the 1836 siege of the Alamo.

When Billy Beede learns that her mother's burial spot is about to be plowed up to make way for a supermarket, Billy sets out to dig up her mother, and the stash of jewels that is rumored to be buried with her, before she misses her chance.

Texas writer Barbara McBride-Smith retells fifteen Greek myths in a Western voice, featuring such characters as Orpheus, Pandora, Cupid and Psyche, and Odysseus and Achilles.

An easy-to-read biography of the soldier and politician who helped gain Texas' independence from Mexico and became president of the new Republic of Texas in 1836.

Baker is unhappy about leaving Seattle and his job as director of his grandmother's puppet shows, but he soon discovers that the kids in Texas aren't much different than in his old school.

Presents a graphic history of the Battle of the Alamo between Texas rebels and the Mexican army under Santa Anna which took place in March 1836.

A biography of the Mexican American scholar, folklorist, and poet who taught for many years at the University of Texas and wrote the 1958 book "With His Pistol in His Hand.

In small-town Texas in the mid-1950s, twelve-year-old Silvy tries to make sense of her parent's financial problems, a Supreme Court ruling that will integrate her school, the prejudice of her family and friends, and her own behavior, which always seems to be wrong.

Melvin B. Tolson is a professor at Wiley College in Texas. Wiley is a small African-American college.

In the town of Morganville, vampires and humans live in relative peace.