Twelve-year-old Colton, son of an African-American mother and a white father, takes a job with the Pony Express in 1860 after his father abandons the family on their California-bound wagon train, and risks his life to deliver an important letter that may affect the growing conflict between the North and South.
year: 2005, 2006
call number/section: 1000
subjects: pony express, juvenile fiction, slavery, identity (psychology), racially mixed people, self-acceptance, united states, history, 1815-1861, juvenile fiction, west (u.s.), 19th century, fiction
Editions
Wilson, Diane L
Margaret K. McElderry (2005)
Twelve-year-old Colton, son of an African-American mother and a white father, takes a job with the Pony Express in 1860 after his father abandons the family on their California-bound wagon train, and risks his life to deliver an important letter that may affect the growing conflict between the North and South.
Schools: 15
Wilson, Diane L
Aladdin Paperbacks (2006)
Twelve-year-old Colton, son of an African-American mother and a white father, takes a job with the Pony Express in 1860 after his father abandons the family on their California-bound wagon train, and risks his life to deliver an important letter that may affect the growing conflict between the North and South.
Schools: 5