Nancy Oswald

• Nov-2011
• / General Fiction
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Rescue in Poverty Gulch transports the reader to 1896 Cripple Creek, Colorado, where gold was in the hills and the town was booming. Ruby May Oliver and her donkey, Maude, are happy with things just the way they are, traveling with Pa to mining camps...

• Feb-2013
• / Historical
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At first I thought everything in America would look like New York City, with shops and crowded streets, but I have discovered, the farther west we travel, that there are long stretches of nothing. Absolutely nothing.

I only hope the place we...

• Apr-2013
• / General Fiction
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Hides Inside is thirteen winters -- old enough to yearn to be a warrior. His brother, Standing Tall, has given him the first lesson, “A Cheyenne does not fight his own people.” Not even when other boys taunt him because he cannot speak.On a dim n...

• Nov-2013
• / General Fiction
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Ants, bees, dragonflies, limping millipedes… Buster would rather ignore his brainy sister Maggie’s insect zoo, but he needs her help with the carnival fundraiser for his baseball team, the Cougars. Unfortunately, Buster needs more than fundraisin...

• Nov-2014
• / Historical
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Trouble on the Tracks, the second Ruby and Maude Adventure book, returns readers to the Cripple Creek mining town of 1896.

Ruby May Oliver and her donkey and best friend, Maude, find a new friend when a cat named Trouble entwines itself around...

• Apr-2017
• / General Fiction
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Trouble Returns is the third installment in the Ruby and Maude Adventure series.Eleven-year-old Ruby is in an unbelievable amount of trouble. Trouble in school, trouble with the Sisters of Mercy, trouble with her cat named Trouble, and trouble with P...

• Oct-2021
• / Historical
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Bat, Bandits & Buggies is the fourth book in the Ruby and Maude Adventure Series. These books can be read in any order. In Colorado Springs, the summer of 1898, thirteen-year-old, Ruby is bored, bored, bored. What starts out as a plan to train her do...

• 2022
• / Historical
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