Sam Houston Is My Hero

by Judy Alter

Book Overview

Fourteen-year-old Cat Jennings lives--and works--on a hardscrabble farm outside Bastrop, Texas, with her parents, an older brother Charlie, and three younger children--Holly, Benjie, and Susanna. But her father has gone to fight at the Alamo, and Charlie has left to join him. When Cat learns that the Alamo has fallen with no survivors, she takes off on horseback to ride across South Texas and urge volunteers to join Sam Houston's army. She soon runs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875652778
• ISBN13: 9780875652771
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8