Jo Harper

• Sep-1993
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1996
• / General Fiction
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Arriving late at school day after day, Boliver Boggs keeps himself out of trouble by spinning incredible yarns about what transpired to cause his tardiness and finds his ultimate excuse when a huge monster follows him to school one day....

• Sep-2000
• / Action Adventure
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Growing up under the blistering sun of the desert, the boy Mexicatl can hardly imagine being chosen to lead his people - until he has a vision. One day the Morning Star tells him to search for "a place of harmony" and reveals the sacred image of the ...

• Sep-2000
• / General Fiction
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Like water on parched ground, Mae Dean's happiness dries up when her father announces the family is headed west for a new life on the Texas Panhandle. Her brothers are excited about the move, but Mae Dean doesn't want to leave home and make a new one...

• Dec-2000
• / General Fiction
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Jo Harper’s exquisite tale of an Aztec youth who crosses the Rio Grande with Salvador, his simple but intuitive cousin, weaves Aztec legend, culture, and tonali (fate) into a poignant tapestry of illegal immigration, indomitability, and the precari...

• Nov-2002
• / General Fiction
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Red-haired, freckle-faced Ollie Jolly is a comical kid. Whenever folks look in his jolly face, they can't help but laugh. Just seeing Ollie Jolly makes them merry.

But not everyone likes Ollie. The class bully and a tough-as-nails teacher make his ...

• Mar-2005
• / General Fiction
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Bonnie loves to sing while her father plays a fiddle. In better times, the family was happy in its modest home. But hard times took away Bonnie's father's job, then their house, and then even her father's fiddle. Hearing the unkind remarks of a neigh...

• Sep-2005
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-2007
• / General Fiction
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How do I love you? Like a sugar lump, like a juicy berry, like a plump little peach. Mothers and fathers love their little babies so much, they could just eat them all up! This winsome picture book depicts loving moments between human parents and bab...

• Jul-2008
• / Fantasy
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Many of these seventeen short tales deriving from Mesoamerican mythology are traditional and have traveled through time among the indigenous peoples of Mexico and Central America. A few are contemporary and seem to originate with Nahuatl-speaking des...

• May-2018
• / General Fiction
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Bigfoot Wallace was a famous Texas Ranger who took part in many of the military conflicts of the Republic of Texas and the United States in the 1840s, including the Mexican-American War. Standing six feet tall and weighing in at roughly 240 pounds...