Robert Walker
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Veterans Day is a time to honor the men and women who have served in the United States Armed Forces. On November 11th, services are held across the country dedicated to remembering those who made important sacrifices in the fight for peace and security. Young readers will learn about the soldiers this holiday celebrates and how the occasion is marked across the country.
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Taw Jackson is a rancher who is dead set on capturing an iron-clad stagecoach belonging to cattle baron West Catlin, the man who stole his fortune and good name years before. To pull off the heist, Jackson puts together a crew that includes an old character, a half-civilized Indian, a young drunk, and a cocky gunfighter. Includes production notes and original theatrical trailer.
Pub. Date
[c2004]
Description
Guy Haines, a tennis star who hates his wife, is approached on a train by a stranger, Bruno Anthony, who hates his father. Anthony offers a plan: each could kill the other's victim. No motive, no clue would link the two murders save the casual meeting of strangers on a train. Haines doesn't take the plan seriously, however, until his wife is suddenly murdered, and Anthony appears to demand that Haines keep his part of the bargain.
10) Vengeance Valley
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Owen's desire to repay the kindness and generosity of his adopted family breeds rage and envy within their real son, Lee. Lee's jealousy and anger erupts when he fathers an illegitimate child and frames Owen for the shameful deed. Cast out of his home in disgrace, Owen is targeted by a greater menace-- the outraged kin of the baby's mother.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Guy Haines, a tennis star who hates his wife, is approached on a train by a stranger, Bruno Anthony, who hates his father. Anthony offers a plan: each could kill the other's victim. No motive, no clue would link the two murders save the casual meeting of strangers on a train.
12) Boot Hill
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
In Boot Hill a wealthy town boss causes trouble and two brothers have no choice but to meet the challenge with guns blazing. In Vengeance Valley hardworking Owen is framed by his jealous brother for a crime he didn't commit.
13) The sea of grass
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Brewton's cattle empire includes a million acres of grazing land. Lutie marries him and they have a daughter Sara. Lutie goes alone to Denver where she and lawyer Chamberlain conceive a son Brock whom Jim later accepts with resignation. Long afterward Brock is killed by a posse and Susie brings Lutie and Jim together once more.
15) Madame Curie
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
In an era when women were allowed to be ornaments, mothers or drudges, young Marie Sklodowska of Poland dreamed of something more. She defied convention to study physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne and, with Pierre Curie, the professor who became her husband, to make one of the greatest breakthroughs in 20th-century science.
19) Eight is enough
Author
Series
Invincible (Robert Kirkman) volume 2
Pub. Date
c2004.
Description
Having your father be the most powerful superhero on the planet makes life interesting for Mark Grayson, but the typical high school senior's life really starts to heat up when he finds himself inheriting his father's powers.