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Rules of the Road

Joan Bauer

Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who wants her to retire, and along the way Jenna finds the strength to f

Canyons

Gary Paulsen

Finding a skull on a camping trip in the canyons outside El Paso, Texas, Brennan becomes involved with the fate of a young Apache Indian who lived in the late 1800s.

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Pau

Shadowmaker

Joan Lowery Nixon

Soon after she and her mother come to the small Texas town of Kluney and experience a series of menacing events, Katie begins to suspect that there is something sinister going on.

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Nixon

Across the Great River

Irene Beltran Hernandez

A Mexican family's illegal entry into the U.S. is chronicled through the eyes of a young girl.

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Hernandez

The Liars' Club

Mary Karr

The Texas refinery town of Leechfield, perched onthe swampy rim of the Gulf, is famous for mosquitoes and the manufacture of Agent Orange - a place where the only bookstores are religous ones and the

818.540
Kar

The United States in the Mexican War

Don Lawson

A detailed account of the events leading up to and through the war which the United States fought against Mexico.

973.6
LAW

South Central States

Lawrence Goodwyn

History and information about the south central states: Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas.

917.3
GOO

Texas

Allan Carpenter

917.64
CAR

Black Like Me

John Howard Griffin

301.451
GRI

Rules of the Road

Joan Bauer

Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who wants her to retire, and along the way Jenna finds the strength to f

FIC
Bauer
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