The Case of the Deadly Desperados
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781444001693 (1444001698)
Publish date: June 1st 2011
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
Pages no: 269
Edition language: English
Series: The P.K Pinkerton Mysteries (#1)
I wanted to like this more than I did, because the idea of western featuring an autistic kid detective sounds like a good original idea. However (and I might be being oversensitive), the racial/gender issues were too much for me to overlook, and I found myself wondering who I could ever recommend th...
Not recommended by Debbie Reese or Erin for offensive stereotypes of native americans
‘The Case of the Deadly Desperados’ by Caroline Lawrence is a book that is both different and cleverly written for middle grade readers.The year is 1862, and a half-Indian (the term Native American wasn’t in use back then) boy, P. K. Pinkerton, finds his foster parents cruelly murdered upon his retu...
In the first book in her new Western Mysteries series Caroline Lawrence takes us back in time to Virginia City in 1862. We follow the story of P.K Pinkerton who is being chased by a gang of desperados, they already killed and scalped his foster parents and he is next on their list. I say HIS foste...
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