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Caroline Lawrence has moved away from her Roman Mysteries to the Wild West, and it's a lot of fun.
P.K. "Pinky" Pinkerton is a half-Lakota foster child to the Joneses, and we open on their being scalped and killed by "Injuns", except Ma Evangeline realizes they're actually white men. Turns out that one of the men is Whitling Walt, so named because he "whittles" his victims, and they weren't after the Joneses they were after a Letter that PK's real mother gave him.
P.K. runs away, hoping to get t ...more
P.K. "Pinky" Pinkerton is a half-Lakota foster child to the Joneses, and we open on their being scalped and killed by "Injuns", except Ma Evangeline realizes they're actually white men. Turns out that one of the men is Whitling Walt, so named because he "whittles" his victims, and they weren't after the Joneses they were after a Letter that PK's real mother gave him.
P.K. runs away, hoping to get t ...more
This western is a mystery with a liberal dash of humor about an orphaned boy who is trying to find out what the cryptic paper he was given by his mother really means. There is lots of action and adventure in this book, and you can't help liking the the spunky narrator Pinky.
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Oct 13, 2012
Nicola
marked it as to-read
May 08, 2013
Krista the Krazy Kataloguer
marked it as to-read
