The Great Texas Scare: A Story of the Runaway Scrape - Hardcover

Jones, Martha Tannery

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0937460311 ISBN 13: 9780937460313

Publisher: Hendrick Long Pub Co, 1988

Synopsis

When fighting breaks out in Texas in 1836, the approach of the Mexican army forces Manda and her family to flee their home and seek refuge in the open countryside.

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From School Library Journal:

Grade 3-6--Victorious at the Alamo, Santa Anna moved east to mop up resistance and firmly secure the territory for Mex ico. Santa Anna's coming terrified set tlers: some men organized to resist; women and children hid or fled. During "The Runaway Scrape," as this time of fleeing was later called, occurs the an ecdotal account of two neighboring families at Nacogdoches, near the Sa bine River that separates Texas territo ry from Louisiana--and safety in the United States. Most of the action cen ters around two girls, age ten. Jane, conniving and selfish, is no role model for anyone; Manda plays with Jane buts resents Jane's tricks. Incidents involve a pet pig, a mad dog, an encounter with a skunk, an ice storm, and a flight to cross the Sabine. This fictionalized sto ry can stand on its own, but under standing of the Scrape situation will be greatly enhanced by Leonard Everett Fisher's The Alamo (Holiday, 1987) and John Jakes' Susanna of the Alamo (HBJ, 1986).
-George Gleason, De partment of English, Southwest Mis souri State University, Springfield
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hendrick Long Pub Co
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0937460311
• ISBN 13: 9780937460313
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96
• Illustrator: Loughran Donna