Pub Date: June 1, 2002
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2001039273
Lexile Code: 0790
Features: Bibliography, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 08 to 12
Physical Info: 0.52" H x 6.98" L x 4.48" W ( 0.34 lbs) 224 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States 19th Century | Action and Adventure | Native American
Series: Great Episodes
Description: Twelve-year-old Jimmy Spoon yearns for adventure. So when two Shoshoni boys offer him a horse, Jimmy sneaks away from his family in Salt Lake City to follow the boys.
Brief description:
KRISTIANA GREGORY is the author of Earthquake at Dawn, The Legend of Jimmy Spoon, and Jenny of the Tetons, which won a Golden Kite Award and was an NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies. She began writing when she was eight years old. She has worked as a reporter, an editor, and a children's book reviewer. She lives with her family in Boise, Idaho.
Review Quotes:
"[A] carefully researched, sympathetic, well-balanced picture of life on the frontier; authentic details of daily life are deftly woven into a moving story."--Kirkus Reviews
"An exciting story."--VOYA