- Juvenile fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, Fiction, Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction.
Things look grim for Francis and his adopted family, Lottie and Billy. Without horses, water, or food, they're alone in a prairie wasteland, with the dreaded Comanchero outlaws in pursuit.
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Classical in form, earnest, resolved and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Gary Paulsen
- First published
- February 13, 2001
- Pages
- 97
- Publisher
- Yearling, Perfection Learning Prebound, Dell Yearling
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780756904449
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“If there was one thing Francis Tucket knew with certainty it was that death, brutal death, was close to taking them.”
Gary James Paulsen (May 17, 1939 – October 13, 2021) was an American writer of children's and young adult fiction, best known for coming of age stories about the wilderness. He was the author of more than 200 books and wrote more than 200 magazine articles and short stories, and several plays, all primarily for teenagers. He won the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 1997 for his lifetime contribution in writing for teens.[ **Source**: [Gary Paulsen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Paulsen) on Wikipedia
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