Katherine Abbott Meets Stephen F. Austin
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More Lone Star State history in this, the second book in the Texas Adventure Series! The perfect complement to your social studies curriculum, the Texas Adventure Series is written just for your students, with Texas state educational standards in mind. Bring Texas History to life with a book your class won’t want to put down!
Austin spoke again to fill the silence. “I look forward to renewing my friendship with Clara and Peter. Will I have the pleasure of finding them both out in the field planting?”
Katherine swallowed. “My mother died coming to Texas,” she blurted out. She looked down, miserable and uncomfortable. She wished he would stop talking to her and go find Papa.
Stephen Austin stopped with the dipper of water halfway to his lips. “Oh,” he said. He lifted his eyes and looked directly at her.
“Oh,” he repeated solemnly. “I am so sorry.” His arm dropped to his side. “I understand how you feel. My father died too. He fell sick last year on his way home from Texas. That’s why I’m here now instead of the bearded old man you’d pictured.”
“Then you must hate Texas as much as I do,” Katherine said.
Pure and simple, Katherine Abbott hates Texas. As far as she’s concerned, it’s the loneliest place on Earth. And when a stranger named Stephen Austin visits the family cabin, she’s suspicious. After all, Austin spends his time with the Abbotts making all sorts of pie-in-the-sky promises---and when he leaves, it’s on the back of Mr. Abbott’s borrowed horse! Katherine’s sure that Austin is playing her family for fools. In a story that winds through horse-thieves and horned-toads, brush-fires and bogeymen, coaxing Katherine to warm up to her new home is a Texas-sized job!
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