Each year, the Round Rock Public Library accepts entries into the Young Author Writing Contest. This book is a collection of 2023 participant' stories and poems.

In 1874 Jeff Layne, a Confederate veteran and reformed hide hunter sick of killing both men and buffalo, is on his way back to Texas to revive the family ranch, which fell into carpetbagger hands. Sequel to: Slaughter.

Twelve-year-old Joey Shipman, growing up in the East Texas blacklands in 1885, has more of a burden to bear than most boys his age when his Pa dies in a mysterious accident. This is vintage Kelton, a fast-paced story people with memorable characters, set in the author's beloved home state of Texas.

Whitney Stone, a hot-blooded hoyden, is outraged when her bankrupt father bargains her away to the arrogant Duke of Claymore, and she is determined to remain true to her childhood love, Paul.

Heather Hampton returns to Moses Lake to help sell the family farm but finds herself on an unexpected journey into the area's history, hope, and heart.

A politician’s past war crimes are revealed in this psychologically haunting novel by the National Book Award–winning author of The Things They Carried.
 
Vietnam veteran John Wade is running for senate when long-hidden secrets about his involvement in wartime atrocities come to light. But the loss of his political fortunes is only the beginning of John’s downfall. A retreat with his wife, Kathy, to...

Five different trucks do five different jobs to get an airplane ready for takeoff.

When demonic cheerleaders invade his high school, Percy Jackson hurries to Camp Half Blood, from whence he and his demigod friends set out on a quest through the Labyrinth, while the war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near.

An informative, yet beautiful, introduction to seeds.