Sam Houston Is My Hero Paperback - 2003

Name: Sam Houston Is My Hero
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Author: Alter, Judy,
ISBN: 9780875652771

by Judy Alter

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Fourteen-year-old Cat Jennings lives--and works--on a hardscrabble farm outside Bastrop, Texas, with her parents, an older brother Charlie, and three younger children--Holly, Benjie, and Susanna. But her father has gone to fight at the Alamo, and Charlie has left to join him. When Cat learns that the Alamo has fallen with no survivors, she takes off on horseback to ride across South Texas and urge volunteers to join Sam Houston's army. She soon runs into Johnny Jenkins, who is both her nemesis and her first love. Johnny is on his way to join Houston, even though Cat tells him he's too young.

As she rides from cabin to cabin, Cat meets fascinating characters, like the gentle widow Polly who won't believe that her son died at the Alamo. And she has near misses with a Mexican brigade and roughnecks who try to kidnap her. Disguised as a boy, she runs into the Texian army--only to find that they are retreating! She also finds Charlie and Johnny with Houston, but when she wants to leave for home, General Houston won't allow it.

So Cat joins the Runaway Scrape and follows Houston and his army to San Jacinto, arguing all the way with Johnny and Charlie, who think Houston is a coward for retreating and cruel for burning the towns he marches through. Cat argues that he is the hero who will save Texas.

According to her great-granddaughter, the real Catherine Jennings did make such a ride after her father, Gordon Jennings, was killed at the Alamo. The rest of this story is fiction based on historical research.

First line

THE TROUBLE with heroes is that they're hard to recognize.

Details

Title Sam Houston Is My Hero
Author Judy Alter
Binding Paperback
Pages 130
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Texas Christian University Press
Publication date 2003-06-05
Illustrated Yes
Features Illustrated
ISBN 9780875652771 / 0875652778
Weight 0.49 lbs (0.22 kg)
Dimensions 8.96 x 6.38 x 0.45 in (22.76 x 16.21 x 1.14 cm)
Age range 10 to 13 years
Grade levels 5 - 8
Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 1800-1850
- Cultural Region: Mid-South
- Cultural Region: South
- Geographic Orientation: Texas
Category Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
Library of Congress subjects Heroes, Frontier and pioneer life - Texas
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2003002337
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Judy Alter is the author of seven young-adult novels, six novels for adults, and about forty nonfiction books for young adults. Alter makes her home in Fort Worth, Texas.