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5/04/2010
Hard Winter - Johnny Boggs
The Western Writers of America 2010 Spur Awards include for their the Best Western Juvenile Fiction winner, Hard Winter by Johnny D. Boggs, setting begins in Texas in 1920 and ends in Montana, an oldster recalls the 1886-1887 winter with a youngster. Publishers Weekly: "With hardly a shot fired, Spur Award-winner Boggs delivers one of his best westerns. ... Boggs has produced a tender and suspenseful western that doesn't need to rely on gun smoke."
RETIRED Texana librarian.
As a child books were important to my family and me. The successful connection of a child with a book, with an imagination or practical solution in tow is a genuine delight.
Will's a former yardkeeper, newspaperboy, school cafeteria aide, bank scullion, newspaper circulation manager, library aide, chair manufacturing line operator, donut cook, short-order cook, floor sweeper, munitions plant quality assurance clerk, substitute preacher, library aide, sawmill hand, teacher of government-English-history-sawmill craftsmanship, nightwatchman, salmon fisherman, cheese plant scullion, library aide, librarian. Lon Morris College, Stephen F. Austin State U., Texas A&I State U., UT Library School. willstexana [at] yahoodotcom
INTERFILING OTHER LISTS Occasionally, the YTR will find a separate list whose citations that will be posted on a one-at-a-time basis with its original content annotation in tact, often with supplementary information. One such case is the DRT Library's 2004 juvenile bibliography of the Alamo and Texas Revolution. Such an interfiling technique will add a structual basis not possible else wise. WH
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