While visiting her grandmother during the summer of 1944, a fourteen-year-old girl helps to heal the wounds that have been inflicted upon three generations of women.

Honor Bright

Teen & Young Adult

Platt, Randall Beth

Literature & Fiction

Demco Media

The Likes of Me

In 1918, having run away from the Washington State lumber camp she calls home, a fourteen-year-old half-Chinese albino named Cordy makes her way to Seattle and finds work in a carnival.

<p>When the owner of Oregon's largest cattle ranch, The Four Arrows, is shot by his horse in a freak accident, Royal Leckner suddenly finds himself charged with teaching the owner's mentally retarded son to take over management of the ranch. The son, Leviticus Perrault, comes as part of an unmatched set, which includes Toofer, a man split between bickering Confederate and Union personalities; Tommy Two Hearts, half-white, half-Indian, and half-paralyzed; and Lou(ella), an idiot savant. With the help of some cowhands and an uppity lady accountant, Royal and his crew try to run the ranch despite the connivings of the entire county.</p>

The Four Arrows Fe-As-Ko

Humor & Satire

Catbird Press

<p>Ian McKenzie is a bright fifteen-year-old street kid who's been sent to a Washington State summer camp in 1944 to be straightened out. Andy Ackerman, the counselor assigned to the camp's charity cases, is a young man fresh from the war in the Pacific, tough, angry, but understanding. Through Ackerman's tough love and the sharing of a strenuous task, Ian gains pride and a sense of honor. It is Ackerman's tragedy that forms the cornerstone of McKenzie's life and makes this coming-of-age novel so compelling.</p>

The Cornerstone: A Novel

United States

In the third Fe-As-Ko, cowboy Royal Leckner, his wife E. M., and Leviticus and Lou, the mentally out-of-sorts owners of the Four Arrows Ranch, have lassoed themselves a struggling baseball team. They are depending on the team to save the ranch, but getting them ready for the big time makes breaking a bronco look like child’s play. In the course of a long winter’s training the team and its owners encounter obstacles such as E.M.’s conniving half-sister, her jailbird father, a past baseball scandal, and the team’s ruthless opponents. The team is scheduled to play the pennant-winning Boston Beaneaters in a game that will decide everyone’s futures.

The 1898 Baseball Fe-As-Ko

Sports & Outdoors