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Zibart, Rosemary

Activities, Crafts & Games

Kinkajou Press

Two boys from different cultures, one a Texan, one a New Mexican, get caught on opposite sides of the U.S. Civil War. Jemmy Martin wants to stay on the family farm near San Antonio, Texas. When his brother becomes a packer for a regiment of Texas Mounted Volunteers, then deserts, Jemmy takes his brother's identity to protect him from the firing squad. Now all Jemmy wants is to get himself and his family mules back to the farm where they belong. Raul Atencio isn't interested in the Americanos war. The nephew of a prosperous Socorro, New Mexico merchant, Raul wants to become rich and powerful like his uncle. While at Fort Craig to deliver supplies and help build defenses, the Confederates arrive, and Raul becomes an unwilling participant in the defense of the Fort. As the Confederate army marches around Fort Craig, the Union forces prepare to stop them. Upon the banks of the Rio Grande the two armies face off in the Battle of Valverde, and both Jemmy and Raul must struggle to keep themselves, and their dreams, alive.

Where Duty Calls (1) (Rebels Along the Rio Grande)

Bohnhoff, Jennifer

Literature & Fiction

The Worst Enemy (2) (Rebels Along the Rio Grande)

Twelve-year-old Walter plans to spend the summer of 1927 watching his beloved Chicago Cubs play baseball. Instead, his life is upended when his mother is diagnosed with tuberculosis. Walter leaves his father and his friends to accompany his mother by train to Albuquerque, New Mexico?a place he has never been to live with relatives he has never met. To help with expenses, Walter gets a paper route. But the situation gets worse. His mother is admitted to a tuberculosis sanatorium and needs expensive surgery. Walter wrecks his cousin' s bicycle, and they get into a fistfight. What else could go wrong? Walter has a chance encounter with the gangster, Al " Scarface" Capone. Walter reluctantly becomes his errand boy. When Walter learns Capone plans to pay for his mother' s surgery, he faces a difficult decision. Should he accept Capone' s help if his family will be indebted to a gangster?

Walter Steps Up to the Plate

Houser, Sue

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