Margaret Dardess

Bowers and Shady (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

With his family's future at stake, a young boy will stop at nothing to save their

farm---but can he succeed?

When thirteen-year-old Bowers Jamison sets out for post-Civil War Colorado, he

doesn't expect the West to be filled with outlaws, betrayal, and secrets. He knows only

that he must recover his father's stolen pocket watch for his family's luck to change.

With a ten-year-old orphaned Irish pickpocket named Shady O'Toole at his side,

Bowers must decide who he can trust as his quest begins.

Step into a frontier full of grit, true friendship and history that will keep the reader turning

pages long after the sun goes down.

Are you ready for an adventure?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cushing Publishig
• Seitenzahl: 126
• Altersempfehlung: ab 8 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781963661408
• Artikelnr.: 75558341

Autorenporträt

Margaret Dardess has always loved stories, especially about people who came beforeher and events that happened in the past. That love led her to study history in collegeand graduate school. After a varied career as an attorney, corporate executive, anduniversity administrator, and following publication of her first book, BRUTAL SILENCE,a thriller, she is writing historical fiction for kids.BOWERS AND SHADY, her first children's novel, is a middle-grade adventure, writtenfor readers, ages 10 through 13. Set in the fictitious town of Green Valley, Colorado onthe eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains in the post-Civil War era, it is the story offriendship between a thirteen-year-old Iowa farm boy and an orphaned Irish girl on amission to find a magic pocket watch.Margaret was inspired to write BOWERS AND SHADY after delighting in the rediscoveyof a well-worn a little book of stories her grandmother had written for her as a childabout her friendship with a boy named Bowers. As in her grandmothers' story, the twokids in BOWERS AND SHADY learn the importance of helping friends and family andeach other, and both become much wiser than they were at the beginning of theirjourney.