On The Road With Ruben Doyle

About the Book

An orphan train headed west launches a boy into dangerous territory and a hard education in survival, leading finally to the ranch of a legendary mountain man and a mining war in southern Colorado. An isolated village on a frontier in the Balkans harbors omens and restless spirits. A daring girl steals a captive frog from a traveling fair and braves a haunted gorge to set him free. She soon makes a startling discovery. A peasant farmer in southern China suffers the tyranny of bandits, Manchu soldiers, and a greedy landlord. As if to compensate, Fate has given his daughter an extraordinary head of hair and placed in his path a young man wracked with fever and left behind by a caravan. What can come of this? The perils in store for his daughter lead finally to a dramatic climax across the Pacific in Gold Mountain. Three rousing stories of compelling young heroes from other times, other places. What can be better than that?

About the Author

The author lives in Southern California.