Little Britches Series

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I am terribly excited about the "Little Brithes" series! This series is by far the best loved set of books that we have ever read for our family reading time! My husband and I love them as much or more than the kids do. It's kind of like the "Little House on the Prairie" series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, but set on a Colorado Ranch in the early l900's. What good family, moral and character values they teach! These books have made us laugh and cry as well as hold our breath almost at points and cheer and really feel with Ralph what he experiences. We planned on reading one chapter a night and ended up reading more almost nightly sometimes even reading up to five chapters because we just couldn't put it down yet. We are ready for these next two books and eagerly wait there arrival! Our evenings are not the same. We miss them. We want to know what happens next!

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Little Britches - Little Britches Series Ralph Moody was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Through his eyes we experience the pleasures and perils of ranching there early in the twentieth century. Auctions and roundups, family picnics, irrigation wars, tornadoes and wind storms give authentic color to Little Britches. So do adventures, wonderfully told, that equip Ralph to take his father's place when it becomes necessary.	Reg. $14.95 On Sale! $11.95
Man Of The Family - Little Britches Series Little Britches becomes the "man" in his family after his father's early death, taking on the concomitant responsibilities as well as opportunities. During the summer of his twelfth year he works on a cattle ranch in the shadow of Pike's Peak, earning a dollar a day. Little Britches is tested against seasoned cowboys on the range and in the corral. He drives cattle through a dust storm, eats his weight in flapjacks, and falls in love with a blue outlaw horse.	Reg. $12.95 On Sale! $11.65
Home Ranch - Little Britches Series	Reg. $13.95 On Sale! $12.55
Fields Of Home - Little Britches Series The fatherless Moody family moved from Colorado to Medford, Massachusetts, in 1912, when Ralph was entering his teens. "I tried as hard as I could to be a city boy, but I didn't have very good luck," he says at the beginning of The Fields of Home. "Just little things that would have been all right in Colorado were always getting me in trouble." So he is sent to his grandfather's farm in Maine, where he finds a new set of adventures.	Reg. $13.95 On Sale! $12.55
Mary Emma & Company - Little Britches Series The protagonist, Mary Emma Moody, widowed mother of six, has taken her family east in 1912 to begin a new life. Her son, Ralph, then thirteen, recalls how the Moodys survive that first bleak winter in a Massachusetts town. Money and prospects are lacking, but not so faith and resourcefulness. "Mother" in Little Britches and Man of the Family, Mary Emma emerges fully as a character in this book, and Ralph, no longer called "Little Britches," comes into his own. The family’s run-ins with authority and with broken furnaces in winter are evocative of a full and warm family life.	Reg. $11.95 On Sale! $10.75
Dry Divide - Little Britches Series Ralph Moody, just turned twenty, had only a dime in his pocket when he was put off a freight in western Nebraska. It was the Fourth of July in 1919. Three months later he owned eight teams of horses and rigs to go with them. Everyone who worked with him shared in the prosperity -the widow whose wheat crop was saved and the group of misfits who formed a first-rate harvesting crew. But sometimes fickle Mother Nature and frail human nature made sure that nothing was easy. The tension between opposing forces never lets up in this book Without preaching, The Dry Divide warmly illustrates the old-time virtues of hard work ingenuity, and respect for others. The Ralph Moody who was a youngster in Little Britches and who grew up without a father and with early responsibilities in Man of the Family, The Fields of Home, The Home Ranch, Mary Emma & Company, and Shaking the Nickel Bush has become a man to reckon with in The Dry Divide.	Reg. $11.95 On Sale! $10.75
Horse Of A Different Color - Little Britches Series	Reg. $12.95 On Sale! $11.65
Shaking The Nickel Bush - Little Britches Series Skinny and suffering from diabetes, Ralph Moody is ordered by a Boston doctor to seek a more healthful climate. Going west again is a delightful prospect. His childhood adventures on a Colorado ranch were described in Little Britches and Man of the Family, also Bison Books. Now nineteen years old, he strikes out into new territory hustling odd jobs, facing the problem of getting fresh milk and leafy green vegetables. He scrapes around to survive, risking his neck as a stunt rider for a movie company. With an improvident buddy named Lonnie, he camps out in an Arizona canyon and "shakes the nickel bush" by sculpting plaster of paris busts of lawyers and bankers. This is 1918, and the young men travel through the Southwest not on horses but in a Ford aptly named Shiftless. New readers and old will enjoy this entry in the continuing saga of Ralph Moody.	Reg. $12.95 On Sale! $11.65
Set of 8 Little Britches You will grow to love Ralph and his family as you read his first person narratives in this series. Little Britches is set in the American West and is an excellent example of living history books - one of those series that will transport you back in time, offering lessons & values along the way.	Our Price $89.95