Border Ransom

by Pat Carr

In August 1914, recently orphaned Cooper Harrison arrives in El Paso to live with grandparents she's never met. The minute the fifteen-year-old steps off the train, everything seems wrong. The heat is stifling, her grandfather Luther is cold and appraising and, worse, doesn't even mention the recent loss of both parents. Her grandmother, Angelica, is remote and childlike and wears only black and diamonds. When Cooper asked to come live with her grandparents,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875653324
• ISBN13: 9780875653327
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8