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The Adventurous Deeds of Deadwood Jones


School year: Year 10, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9

No. of pages 232

Published: 2011

Great for age 7-15 years

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Saddle up! We're headed for Deadwood. When Prometheus Jones wins a horse with the raffle ticket he got from Pernie and LaRue Boyd, he knows things won't go smoothly. No way are those two rednecks going to let a black man, even a freeman from the day of his birth, keep that horse. So as soon as things get ugly, he jumps on the horse, pulls his friend Omer up behind him, and heads off. They hook up with a cattle drive out of Texas heading for Deadwood, North Dakota. Prometheus is a fine hand with a horse and not so bad with a gun, and both skills prove useful as the trip north throws every twist and turn imaginable at the young cowpokes. The Adventurous Deeds of Deadwood Jones, a Voice of Youth Advocates Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers book, revives the famous "dime novels" about "Deadwood Dick" written by Edward L. Wheeler, which, in turn, were loosely based on the autobiography of the African American cowboy Nat Love.

 

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards

This book is aimed at children at US 5th grade-9th grade.

This book has been graded for interest at 10-14 years.

There are 232 pages in this book. This book was published in 2011 by Astra Publishing House .

Helen Hemphill grew up in Texas and now lives with her family in Nashville, Tennessee, and Austin, Texas. Runaround is her second novel.

 

This book has been nominated for the following award:

Beehive Award - Fiction
This book was recognised in the Fiction category by the Beehive Award.

"The adventures are nonstop, with mentions of Custer and warring Pawnee and Sioux Indians adding to the excitement and danger of buffalo stampedes and river crossings." --Kirkus Reviews

"Compelling reading." --Booklist

"Hemphill's convincing vernacular narration and well-researched, hard-bitten details of life in the South and on the western range give this adventure story surprising depth. The fast-paced plot, punctuated by Prometheus's astonishing wins and losses, will lasso readers' interest." --School Library Journal