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Will Little Red Riding Hood meet the bully, Big Bad Wolf, while she’s crossing the Magic Forest to Granny’s sod house? Will Granny get to eat Red’s basket of goodies? Set in the old west, this Grimm Fairy Tale retelling has lots of action and adventure. It features the traditional Western themes of being neighborly and friendly. However, the wolf is still as cunning as ever -- but readers will learn Red Riding Hood is up to the challenge! And Granny isn't any ordinary grandmother either, as she's been out plowing the fields. With a grade 2.5 reading level and familiar story elements, ...

Can the three little pigs build a strong playhouse? Or will it fall in when the bully, big bad Wolf, shouts, “I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house in?” The three little pigs are talking animals that live in an enchanted forest called Magic Forest. The friends find adventure away from the castle but are always bothered by that bully, the big bad wolf. After the pigs sneak away to visit the wild west town, Gopher Gulch, and find the wolf visits there, too, they decide it’s time to build a play house to keep the wolf out. Will teamwork help the pigs learn to keep trying...

Turtle and Rabbit decide to race through Magic Forest to Princess Jess’s birthday party at the castle. Rabbit can run much faster, but will he get there before Rabbit? While the moral of this fable, slow and steady wins the race, holds true, there's lots of excitement along turtle and rabbit's race from the old west town of Gopher Gulch to the castle in Magic Forest. And there are two pieces of birthday cake waiting for whoever gets there first. Beginner readers will keep turning the pages to see what happens. They'll celebrate with turtle when she wins the race and learn about ...

Mouse is looking for a home of her own. Lion just wants to escape from his cage in the circus and be free. When a tornado blows the circus away, can these two help each other? It's the old West with a twist -- Magic Forest is nearby, so anything can happen!When the circus comes to Gopher Gulch, Mouse sneaks into the circus tent thinking it might be a good place for a home. But when the tent blows away in a tornado, she's forced to run to Magic Forest with all the circus animals to escape the storm. She finds danger everywhere! So does the mighty Lion, as the circus people recapture the ...

Gerrit Nagel lands in Billings, Montana, with nothing to his name but the clothes he's wearing--and an older brother determined to make him into a cowboy. In this coming of age western, Gerrit learns to ride horses behind 2000 head of cattle heading north to Montana. In his mind, he's a Pinkerton detective, finding outlaws and gunslingers who might be working the range as frontier cowboys. Everywhere he goes, Gerrit seems to run into outlaws or see wanted posters that look eerily familiar. The face of Dutch Henry haunts him. Who is that outlaw? Will he ever find out? And will his brother ...

Saskatchewan's Big Muddy Badlands provided the perfect location for Station No. 1 on the Outlaw Trail. During the last five minutes of the old west, at the turn of the 20th century, these buttes, ravines and canyons were known as The Devil’s Playground. Indeed, the badlands that spread out from the United States/Canada border are full of many untold stories of the old west. For decades, there was plenty a horse thief and outlaw looking to rustle cattle and steal horses, drive them over the border and sell them. By then, many of the infamous riders of the Outlaw Trail had been locked up or...

How did Santa Claus grow up to spread Christmas magic around the world? Find out in this retelling of L. Frank Baum's Christmas legend. Necile, a nymph, doesn’t know the human baby she finds near Magic Forest, and adopts, will grow up to become Santa Claus. Living in a world of magical creatures, Claus doesn't realize at first that he's different. When he does, he sets off to the old west town of Gopher Gulch searching for belonging and acceptance. In his travels he makes friends, helps children, and gets to the enchanted North pole along with the elves and reindeer. This Christmas story ...

Gunshots echo through the badlands and Constable Dane disappears in hot pursuit. Will Gerrit make it over the U.S. border to testify against Dutch Henry--his own cousin--for being a horse thief? In this coming of age Western, sixteen-year-old Gerrit isn't alone for long. Wart, another young rider on horseback soon appears. But before the constable returns, Wart does the unthinkable and blindfolds and gags Gerrit to take him to the outlaw hideout! Can Gerrit escape from the outlaw hideout where he's held captive by an outlaw gang so he can't testify at the trial? Is Wart really an outlaw, or...