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In the 1870s, young Mattie Ross learns that her beloved father was gunned down by his former handyman. But even though this gutsy 14-year-old is seeking vengeance, she is smart enough to figure out she can't go alone after a desperado who's holed up in Indian territory. With some fast-talking, she convinces mean, one-eyed US Marshal "Rooster" Cogburn into going after the despicable outlaw with her.

Based on incidents that took place in the southwestern United States and Mexico around 1850, this novel chronicles the crimes of a band of outlaws, with a particular focus on one, "the kid," a boy of fourteen.

Third-grader Dink and his detective friends hope to receive a big reward by finding the person whose video recorder picked up a picture of the local bank robber.

A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws.

Con Vallian knew the best way to stay out of trouble was to mind his own business. Then he stopped for a cup of coffee at a stranger's campfire and found himself guiding the McKaskels, a family of greenhorn Easterners, across the prairie -- fighting a pack of rustlers on one hand and some mighty unpredictable Indians on the other! Quick and the Dead tells the story of peaceful folks driven to action under the guidance of a mysterious stranger. It...

An adaptation of Dicken's story of the orphan forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in 19th century London.

Tom Kedrick earned his stripes during the Civil War, fought Apaches, and even soldiered overseas. But in the high desert country of New Mexico, the battle-hardened Kedrick is entangled in a different kind of war, fueled by greed and deception. Hired by Alton Burwick to drive a pack of renegades and outlaws off the government land recently set aside for an Indian reservation, Kedrick begins to notice that things are not as they seem. As his suspicions...

When Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose visit a dude ranch in Montana, they find themselves with a mystery to solve, this one involving the theft of money from the ranch's safe and of a large gold nugget that Josh had found.

A gritty western couched in the easy storytelling style of a folk ballad, Leif Enger's highly anticipated second novel (his first was Peace Like a River) tells the story of outlaw Glendon Hale's quest to right his past, as seen through the eyes of his unlikely companion Monte Becket. So Brave, Young, and Handsome begins with Becket, a struggling novelist bewildered by the success of his first book, who has pledged to his wife, son, and publisher to...

While visiting their friend Wallis and her adopted daughter on Mount Desert Island, Maine, Josh, Dink and Ruth Rose investigate why three white wolf cubs were stolen, and by whom.