Title The journal of Joshua Loper : a Black cowboy / Walter Dean Myers.

Publication Info.	New York : Scholastic, 1999.
	©1999

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Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection	CH/YA Fic Myers Jou 1999				Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer

Edition	First edition.
Description	158 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
	eth African Americans
	nat Americans
	age Children
Series	My name is America
	My name is America.
Note	"Joshua Loper is a fictional character created by the author"--Title page verso.
	Includes one fold-out map of the Chisholm trail across Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas in 1871 in back of book.
Summary	In 1871 Joshua Loper, a sixteen-year-old black cowboy, records in his journal his experiences while making his first cattle drive under an unsympathetic trail boss.
Audience	Middle School.
	1000L Lexile.
Study Program	Accelerated Reader blank 5.0 4.0.
Provenance	Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer
Subject	Cattle drives -- Juvenile fiction.
	Cattle drives.
	African American cowboys -- Juvenile fiction.
	African American cowboys.
	Western stories.
	Western stories.
	Chisholm Trail -- Fiction.
	Chisholm Trail -- Juvenile fiction.
	United States -- Chisholm Trail.
Genre/Form	Diaries.
	Diary fiction.
	Fiction.
	Juvenile works.
ISBN	0590026917
	9780590026918