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by Audrey Couloumbis
Published 2005 |
Wanted "Mad" Maude March
The nortorious Maude March, a girl reported to be just fifteen years of age, held up the Des Moines Savings and Trust on Friday morning. Eyewitnesses told authorities that she passed for a man and shot like an outlaw...
Eleven-year-old Sallie March is a whip-smart tomboy and voracious reader of Western adventure novels. When she and her sister, Maude, are orphaned for the second time, they decide to escape their new self-serving guardians for the wilds of the frontier and an adventure the likes of which Sallie has only read about.
This time, however, the "wanted woman" isn't a villain out of a dime novel-it's Sallie's very own sister! And while life on the run has its perks Ñ not having to wear a dress, for starters Ñ pretty soon the horse thieving and bank robbing and bandits are more than even Sallie bargained for.
Narrated by the irrepressible Sallie, what follows is the rollicking story of what really happened out there on the range. Not the lies the papers printed, but the honest-to-goodness truth of how things went from bad to worse and how two very different sisters went from being orphans to being outlaws-and lived to tell the tale!
Packed with memorable characters, fast-paced action, and laugh-out-loud moments, this is Newbery Honor winner Audrey Couloumbis's most unforgettable work yet.
Also, see the companion Web site at www.maudemarch.com
Ushers Ferry Historic Village
Here's a website about Ushers Ferry Historic Village (www.cedar-rapids.org/ushers), a re-created small Iowa town at the turn of the 20th century that re-creates life as it would have been for Maude and Sallie.
Check it out!
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