Announcing
COMING IN 2014
Hank of Twin Rivers
Book Two: The Eagle's Nest
We find Hank three years later. Hank finds a perch at the top of
a tall cottonwood tree where he watches as Twin Rivers grows into a trading
post. Wagon trains on both the Oregon and the Mormon Trails stop for supplies.
Among his many adventures are helping a family of slaves escape from bounty
hunters, making friends with a Pawnee boy, tangling with a wild woman, and
falling for the preacher's daughter. His conflict with his pa renews when his
new stepmother insists that they send him away to an eastern school to further
his education. He joins the horse wranglers passing through and learns the hard
way how to break a horse. When he comes back to Twin Rivers, he fined Becca
gone.
Start reading the first book now!
Hank of Twin Rivers, Book One: Journey of Change
by M. C. Arvanitis
Links: http://amzn.com/1494427001
Book One, 'Journey of Change' takes readers into the dangerous adventures of a pioneer boy on the first step of his
journey to adulthood. Hank lives with his over-protective
mother and a overly strict father. who believes that harsh discipline will make
his son into a man. When cholera takes his mother, Hank's
only comforts are his wisecracking, fiddle-playing Irish uncle; and his pet cow,
Clementine. He feels Pa's disappointment in him and hides in daydreams and book reading. What else can he do? He can't
make himself grow taller, and now that the cholera has weakened his leg and he
finds himself limping, he feels even more inadequate.
When Hank’s father decides to find a new home, Hank rebels. Pa’s discipline is quick and painful and Hank has to
obey. Crossing
sandbur-infested prairies, fording raging rivers, and eating dust while walking
behind the slow wagon fill Hank's days. He withstands the unpredictable
mid-western weather of hailstorms, dust storms, an early blizzard and flash
floods. Stampeding buffalo, murdering claim jumpers, rattlesnakes, and a belligerent goose provide plenty of challenges.
- Note from author, M. C. Arvanitis
So many boys quit reading for pleasure at the age of 10, the phenomenon has a name — the Fourth-Grade Slump. It has been said that forty per cent of boys are “reluctant readers” in school, but the problem isn’t intelligence. Boys are simply less motivated to read. Give them a look into the exciting and dangerous world of Hank Heaton's Journey on the Oregon Trail. They'll put themselves in Hank's shoes and want to read the series.
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