All The Earth, Thrown To The Sky
When the devastation wrought by endless dust storms in 1930s Oklahoma makes orphans of Jack, his schoolmate Jane, and her brother Tony, they take the truck of a dead man and set out to find a new start.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: dust bowl era, 1931-1939, automobile travel, orphans [X], brothers and sisters, depressions, oklahoma, texas [X], siblings, great depression, 1929-1939
Phoenix
"When their home is robbed, thirteen-year-old Phoenix Collins, an up and coming amateur dirt-bike racer, discovers a shocking mystery about his grandfather, and Phoenix must travel to China and then to Texas to find some answers"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
The Mystery At The Alamo
Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny are given the opportunity to be extras in a movie about the Alamo, but they are called upon to use their sleuthing skills when Claire, the star of the film, is implicated in the theft of a valuable ring.
FIC
year: 1997
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 550
subjects: orphans [X], siblings, mystery fiction, texas [X], alamo (san antonio, tx), mystery and detective stories, brothers and sisters, alamo (san antonio, tex.), boxcar children (fictitious characters), motion pictures, boxcar children (fictional characters), detective and mystery stories
Hazelle Boxberg
Hazelle, taken to live in an orphanage after her mother is hospitalized, is forced to leave New York and travel to Texas on an orphan train, but she is lucky enough to be adopted by an understanding family that helps her find out what happened to her mom.
920
year: 2004
copies: 1
call number/section: 920
lexile:
subjects: orphans [X], mothers and daughters, historical fiction, mother-daughter relationship, texas [X]
Tumbleweed Baby
Long ago in Nowhere, Texas, Mama and Papa Upagainstit agree to take in the wild baby their five children find in a passing tumbleweed, despite the objections of the one who used to be "the littlest-of-all girl.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: