Tom Gnagey

Jericho and Red Eagle's Dangerous Journeys Tom Gnagey

10 to 14 year old readers: (Best read in order) In Book Four the twelve year olds from 1870 Kansas - Jericho and Red Eagle - take a horseback trip to look at land on which to build their first home for orphaned children. They reunite with the Arapaho boy, Rising Sun (Book Two), and along the way encounter gold thieves, kidnappers, a lost young boy whose parents have been taken by bad guys, a kid with a broken leg who is trapped inside a cave, cattle rustlers, a tornado, a man sucked into quicksand, and a woman from back east whose life is threatened by her evil brother. Once again the boy's quick wits and exceptional skill with bows and arrows save the day. It makes for an exciting 125 pages.