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2) Jo's triumph
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2002.
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 460L
Language
English
Description
A family's cross-country communication changes during the development and demise of the Pony Express. Includes author's note about the history of mail delivery in the United States, with "notable dates."
Author
Series
North Star books volume 6
Language
English
Description
Prior to the Civil War, the fastest mail between the West Coast and the East took almost thirty days by stagecoach along a southern route through Texas. Some Californians feared their state would not remain in the Union, separated so far from the free states. Then businessman William Russell invested in a way to deliver mail between San Francisco and the farthest western railroad, in Saint Joseph, Missouri—across two thousand miles of mountains,
...Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"When word of the Pony Express being formed reached Texas, Clay Roswell decided to get a job as an express rider. At a way station in Kansas, he was told his best chance for such a job was along the desert stretch in Nevada Territory, so that was where he headed. Along the trail, he caught up with two brothers, Jess and Hoke Pickard. That night, when Roswell was in his blankets, the Pickards jumped him and set out to club him to death. They stole...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
In 1860, eleven-year-old Annie, who lives at the Red Buttes Pony Express station in the Nebraska Territory, asks Pony Express rider Billy Cody to help her find the person responsible for sabatoging her favorite pony Magpie.
Author
Publisher
Erewhon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An orphan caring for her heavily pregnant sibling disguises herself as a boy to take a job on the Pony Express, where she partners with a young man hiding his own secrets and a mixed-race youth trying to defend his freedom.
When Jessamine Murphy finds a recruitment poster for the Pony Express, she's looking for adventure-- and a chance to track down her wayward father in California. Eager to reunite her fractured family, Jessamine cuts her hair,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
MISTLETOE MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE. When Jake Bridges suddenly finds himself the guardian of his orphaned niece, he knows he needs a wife. What does a stock tender at a pony express station know about raising little girls? A marriage of convenience to the child's caretaker is the most practical solution. A mail-order marriage seems like Leah Hollister's last chance to know the simple joys of family life. But then she receives word that her would-be...
12) Clem's chances
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
In 1860, fourteen-year-old Clem Fontayne learns from fellow travelers about important topics of the day, including the Mormon migration, slavery, and the Pony express, as he journeys from Missouri to California in search of his father.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Young colt Sky was born with the urge to run. Alongside his band, he moves across the range searching for fresh water and abundant grazing. But humans have begun to encroach on Sky's homelands. With fewer resources to share, Sky knows that he must leave if his family is to survive. He hopes that one day, he'll be strong and brave enough to return and challenge the stallion to lead the herd. Being a lone wild horse in a vast landscape is not easy,...
Author
Series
Adventures on the American frontier volume 2
Publisher
Crossway Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Wandering aimlessly on the dangerous high desert of Nevada Territory in 1860, a fourteen-year-old orphan boy finds shelter, food, and a Christian family at the Pony Express station run by the Lovelocks.
15) Fast 'n Snappy
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 660L
Language
English
Description
Fast the alligator and Snappy the frog, the best pardner a Hop-to-It Express rider ever had, speed west with an important letter from President A. Blinkin while Gila Joe and his snakes try to stop them at every turn. Includes facts about the Pony Express.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Colton, son of an African-American mother and a white father, takes a job with the Pony Express in 1860 after his father abandons the family on their California-bound wagon train, and risks his life to deliver an important letter that may affect the growing conflict between the North and South.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Having returned from living with his friends the Shoshoni, seventeen-year-old Jimmy Spoon grows restless again and seeks adventure by taking a job with the Pony Express.
20) Horse power
Author
Series
High adventure book volume ser. I
Publisher
High Noon Books
Pub. Date
[1984]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
400L
Language
English
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