{"id":1435,"date":"2018-12-31T17:13:44","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T17:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2018-12-31T17:13:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T17:13:44","slug":"glenn-dromgooles-texas-reads-column-appears-weekly-at-lonestarliterary-com-104","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1435","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Dromgoole’s Texas Reads column appears weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n

9.16.2018\u00a0 Magic Tree House features 1900 Galveston hurricane<\/h1>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Mary Pope Osborne, author of the popular Magic Tree House<\/span> series of children\u2019s books, turns her attention to the disastrous 1900 Galveston hurricane in Hurricane Heroes in Texas<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Random House, $13.99 hardcover).<\/p>\n

Jack and Annie have a magical tree house near their home in Frog Creek, Pa. From there they are able to travel back through time and experience history first hand, then return home where time has stood still. Their new adventure calls for them to get to Galveston before the hurricane hits and warn people to seek higher ground. But no one wants to heed their warning. They\u2019ve seen storms before; they\u2019re not worried.<\/p>\n

Then the massive storm surges onto the island, destroying everything in its path. Jack and Annie join a mother, Rose, and her baby, Lily, as they climb to the roof, then hang on for dear life to a piece of the roof that becomes their raft.\u00a0 At the Ursuline Academy, the highest point in town, they encounter Sister Mary Joseph and the other nuns who are sheltering hundreds of residents from the floodwaters.<\/p>\n

Jack and Annie help out, then they are ready to head back home to Pennsylvania \u2014 if they can find their magical tree house that\u2019s been blown away in the storm.<\/p>\n

Osborne teamed up with her sister, Natalie Pope Boyce<\/span>, to produce a 128-page companion Fact Tracker Texas<\/span> book ($6.99 paperback) that offers a lot of history and other factual information about Texas.<\/p>\n

Both books are intended for ages 7 through 10. Hurricane Heroes in Texas<\/span> is the thirtieth book in Osborne\u2019s best-selling Magic Tree House series. As she was writing the book last year, Hurricane Harvey struck the Texas coast with a vengeance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis book is inspired by the hope and courage of Texans,\u201d she writes.<\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Hispanics in Texas History:<\/span> Historian Harriett Denise Joseph<\/span> is the author of From Santa Anna to Selena: Notable Mexicanos and Tejanos in Texas History since 1821<\/span><\/a><\/span>(University of North Texas Press, $29.95 hardcover).<\/p>\n

\u00a0In addition to the book\u2019s two title figures, Joseph offers substantive biographical essays on early Tejano leaders Erasmo and Juan Seguin, controversial folk hero\/criminal Juan Nepomuceno Cortina, Adina De Zavala (the Angel of the Alamo), labor activist Emma Tenayuca, Medal of Honor winner Roy Benavidez, husband and wife educators Jovita Gonzalez and Edmundo E. Mireles, and Latina legislator Irma Rangel.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cTragedy and triumph, brutality and heroism, success and failure,\u201d Joseph notes, \u201call can be found in the lives of the eleven notables profiled in these pages.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0Each of the biographical profiles is about forty pages long, including bibliography and endnotes, and Joseph\u2019s introductory and concluding essays reflect on the contributions of Hispanics in helping shape Texas history.<\/p>\n

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Glenn Dromgoole<\/span> writes about Texas books and authors. Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

>> Read his past Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Literary Life here.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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