18 books like Ghost Town at Sundown

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Dinosaurs Before Dark Mary Pope Osborne · 1992 · ★ 4.5 · 80p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic treehouse, which whisks them back to an ancient time zone where they see live dinosaurs. ---------- German-language description: Ein Baumhaus mitten im Wald, wie aufregend! Neugierig klettern Anne und Philipp die Strickleiter hinauf. Wem es wohl gehört? Doch plötzlich beginnt das Baumhaus, sich wild zu drehen. Immer schneller und… Shares: Casas en árboles, Tree houses, Magia, Ficción juvenil

Mummies in the Morning Mary Pope Osborne · 1993 · ★ 3.9 · 65p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Jack and his younger sister take a trip in their tree house back to ancient Egypt, where they help a queen's mummy continue her voyage to the Next Life. Shares: Casas en árboles, Tree houses, Magia, Ficción juvenil

The knight at dawn Mary Pope Osborne · 1993 · ★ 3.9 · 88p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie use the magic treehouse to travel back to the Middle Ages, where they explore a castle and are helped by a mysterious knight. Shares: Casas en árboles, Tree houses, Magia, Spanish language materials

Afternoon on the Amazon Mary Pope Osborne · 1995 · ★ 4.0 · 69p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Eight-year-old Jack, his seven-year-old sister, Annie, and Peanut the mouse ride in a tree house to the Amazon rain forests, where they encounter giant ants, flesh-eating piranhas, hungry crocodiles, and wild jaguars. Shares: Casas en árboles, Tree houses, Spanish language materials, Time Travel

The Fugitive Trail Zane Grey · 1957 · 219p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Bruce Lockheart had one of the fastest six-shooters in the West - sharp, blazing and deadly honest. But when his brother, Barse, pulled one of the biggest hold-ups Texas had ever seen, Bruce took the blame for it, leaving Barse clear to marry the beautiful Trinity Spencer. Now Bruce had the blood-hunting law on his trail, and Trinity fighting to clear his name. If she failed, he would have to… Shares: Frontera y exploradores, Vida, Frontier and pioneer life, Westerns

Catlow Louis L'Amour · 1963 · ★ 4.0 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Ben Cowan and Bijah Catlow had been bound as friends since childhood. By the time they grew to manhood, Catlow had become a top cowhand with a wild streak. It took just one disastrous confrontation with a band of greedy ranchers to make him an outlaw. And when he crossed that line, it was up to U.S. Marshal Ben Cowan to bring him in alive--if only Catlow would give him the chance....From the… Shares: Frontera y exploradores, Vida, Frontier and pioneer life, Westerns

The outlaws of Mesquite Louis L'Amour · 1990 · ★ 4.4 · 210p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Meet the frontier bad men—like Leo Carver—a man so hated that everyone in the town of Canyon Gap planned to turn up for his hanging. Then meet those who dared to challenge them—like Marshal Lou Morgan, who tried to save his citizens from a goldmine swindler, only to learn that his own code of honesty made him the biggest sucker in town. There's champion rodeo rider Marty Mahan, called a coward… Shares: West, Frontier and pioneer life, Westerns

Buffalo Before Breakfast Mary Pope Osborne · 1999 · ★ 4.5 · 96p · ≈ 3h · Moderate The magic tree house takes Jack and his sister Annie to the Great Plains where they learn about the life of the Lakota Indians. Shares: Tree houses, Magia, Spanish language materials, Time Travel

The unforgiven Alan Le May · 1957 · 277p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In this epic American novel, which served as the basis for the classic film directed by John Huston, a family is torn apart when an old enemy starts a vicious rumor that sets the range aflame. Shares: West, Frontier and pioneer life, Westerns

Night of the Ninjas Mary Pope Osborne · 1995 · ★ 4.0 · 80p · ≈ 2h · Moderate The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back in time to feudal Japan where the siblings learn about the ways of the Ninja. Shares: Tree houses, Magia, Spanish language materials, Time Travel

Donnegan Frederick Faust · 1923 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Challenging This carefully crafted ebook: "MAX BRAND Premium Collection: 29 Western Classics & Adventure Tales - Including The Dan Barry Series & The Ronicky Doone Trilogy" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand.… Shares: West, Frontier and pioneer life, Westerns

West of Dodge Louis L'Amour · 1996 · ★ 4.0 · 223p · ≈ 7h · Moderate WHERE THE REAL FRONTIER BEGINSA young cowpuncher stakes a claim that can only be sealed with fists and a .44 Colt. . . . A gunfighter, tired of violence, finds himself pushed down a trail of bloody revenge. . . . From purple sage to gambler’s gold, from a señorita’s tempting smile to a splash of blood in the dust, here are stories with a distinctive L’Amour twist. A quiet farmer defends his honor… Shares: West, Frontier and pioneer life, Westerns

Code of the West Zane Grey · 1934 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Hot-blooded Georgiana Stockwell will break a man's heart while he's eating out of her hand. Moving from the East to join her schoolteacher sister in the rugged wilds of Tonto Basin, Arizona, Georgiana makes quite an impression. Despite her sister's best efforts, Georgiana creates a culture clash as her modern, free-spirited personality comes up against the code of the West, the unwritten law of… Shares: West, Frontier and pioneer life, Westerns

How the West Was Won Louis L'Amour · 1963 · ★ 4.1 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate They came by river and by wagon train, braving the endless distances of the Great Plains and the icy passes of the Sierra Nevada. They were men like Linus Rawlings, a restless survivor of Indian country who'd headed east to see the ocean but left his heart--and his home--in the West. They were women like Lilith Prescott, a smart, spirited beauty who fled her family and fell for a gambling man in… Shares: Frontier and pioneer life, Westerns

The writings of Bret Harte Bret Harte · 1874 · 20p · ≈ 40m · Challenging Francis Bret Harte was born on August 25, 1836 in Albany New York. As a young boy Harte developed an early love of books and reading. He first published at the tender age of 11; a satirical poem titled "Autumn Musings." Expecting praise he encountered anything but and was later to write "Such a shock was their ridicule to me that I wonder that I ever wrote another line of verse." By age 13 his… Shares: Frontier and pioneer life, Westerns

Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life Stewart Edward White · 1904 · ★ 3.4 · 260p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Stewart Edward White’s 1904 collection of thirteen short stories entertain readers with wild and wooly tales of the American frontier, including narratives about prospecting and logging. Shares: Frontier and pioneer life, Westerns

The hanging tree Dorothy M. Johnson · 1957 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Dorothy M. Johnson wrote dozens of highly acclaimed western stories and books in her long career. The stories in this book are her very best. They were ranked as four of the top five stories of the 20th century by the Western Writers of America, with "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" as number one. That story plus "A Man Called Horse" and "The Hanging Tree" became major Hollywood films. This is… Shares: West, Westerns

Sunset of the Sabertooth Mary Pope Osborne · 1996 · ★ 4.4 · 73p · ≈ 2h · Moderate The magic tree house transports Jack and Annie on a mission to the Ice Age where they encounter Cro-Magnons, cave bears, sabertooth tigers, and woolly mammoths. Shares: Tree houses, Spanish language materials, Time Travel, Magic

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