The Gentleman Outlaw and Me--Eli - Softcover

Hahn, Mary Downing

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0380728834 ISBN 13: 9780380728831

Publisher: HarperTrophy, 1997

Synopsis

Twelve-year-old Eliza Yates, disguised as a boy named Eli, escapes the cruel relatives who have made her servant and meets up with Calvin Featherbone, a charming young con-man who takes her on a series of adventures in the Old West. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author:

Always interested in writing, Mary Downing Hahn became a children's author only after experimenting with a wide variety of careers, from junior high school art teacher to college instructor to children's librarian. Today she is the author of more than twenty books that have appeared on countless state awards lists. Her stories run the gamut from historical fiction such as the popular Gordy trilogy, to ghost stories such as Wait Till Helen Comes and Look for Me by Moonlight. Her most recent work, Anna All Year Round, is a gentle and heartwarming story based on her own mother's diaries.

From Kirkus Reviews:

Colorful characterizations and high-spirited language carry this ripsnorting western. After the death of her mother, Eliza, 12, runs away from her cruel and unscrupulous Kansas relatives. She sets out with her faithful dog, Caesar, to find her father in the silver mines of Colorado; early on, in a stolen pair of overalls, she transforms herself into ``Eli.'' Soon after she meets Calvin Featherbone, known as the Gentleman Outlaw, who has been shot and left for dead by a pack of scoundrels. A healed Calvin--who talks ``like he swallowed a dictionary''--sets off with Eli for Tinville, Colorado, to shoot his sworn enemy, Sheriff Alfred Yates. The sheriff happens to be Eliza's father. Hahn (Look For Me By Moonlight, 1995, etc.) has written an amusing comedy of errors that derives much of its humor from Calvin's speech and manners and Eliza's wry asides alluding to her true identity as a girl. With plenty of twists and turns--and a cameo appearance by Doc Holliday--it's a real cowgirl triumph. (Fiction. 10-14) -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperTrophy
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0380728834
• ISBN 13: 9780380728831
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192