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Sam Houston Is My Hero (Chaparral Book for Young Readers,) | 
| Author: Judy Alter
Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1788397
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Pages: 140
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 0875652778
EAN: 9780875652771
ASIN: 0875652778
Publication Date: July 2003
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Product Description
After her father is killed at the Alamo, a girl rides across South Texas urging men to join Houston's army to defeat Santa Anna.
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| Customer Reviews:
Exciting & Historically Accurate Story for YA June 22, 2007
Cindy W. Bonner (Texas)
"Sam Houston Is My Hero" begins with news that 14-year-old Cat Jennings has lost her father, and possibly her brother, at the battle of the Alamo. The real Catherine Jennings rode from her farm in Bastrop across the part of Texas then known as Austin's Colony to spread the news that the Alamo had fallen and to recruit men to join up with Sam Houston's forces. Author Judy Alter's Cat Jennings does much the same, meeting a diverse bunch of people on her Paul Revere-like ride. Before her ride is finished, Cat finds herself in the middle of the Runaway Scrape. She begins to follow, along with the rest of the pioneer Texans, behind Sam Houston as he first evades the Mexican Army then eventually ambushes them in the swamps near San Jacinto. The story moves along at a brisk pace and seamlessly embroiders many of the actual events and people into the fictionalized story. Alter's research is never obvious and adds to the pleasure of the read.
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