Adventurous Deeds of Deadwood Jones, The (p)
In Fiction
Ages: 11-14
Pages: 228
List Price: $7.95
Cover: Paperback
Published: 10/3/2011
ISBN-13: 978-1-59078-896-7
Revives the famous "dime novels" about "Deadwood Dick" written by Edward L. Wheeler that, in turn, were loosely based on the autobiography of the African American cowboy Nat Love.
Reviews
"[An] emotion-filled, memorable novel."
—The Horn Book
"Hemphill’s convincing vernacular narration and well-researched, hard-bitten details of life in the South and on the western range give this adventure story surprising depth. The fast-paced plot, punctuated by Prometheus’s astonishing wins and losses, will lasso readers’ interest."
—School Library Journal
In the December 2008 issue of School Library Journal, reviewer Madeline Walton-Hadlock writes of Helen Hemphill's The Adventurous Deeds of Deadwood Jones: “Hemphill’s convincing vernacular narration and well-researched, hard-bitten details of life in the South and on the western range give this adventure story surprising depth. The fast-paced plot, punctuated by Prometheus’s astonishing wins and losses, will lasso readers’ interest.”
