The Misadventures Of Maude March: Or Trouble Rides A Fast Horse

Enamored with Western novels, eleven-year-old Sallie March, an irrepressible tomboy, and her sister Maude flee from their guardians and embark on a grand adventure through the Old West where Maude becomes wanted by the law!

Audrey Couloumbis was born in Illinois. Her first book for children, Getting Near to Baby, won the Newbery Honor in 2000. Couloumbis is also the author of Say Yes (2002), an IRA Children’s Honor Book and a Bulletin Blue Ribbon Award winner. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked as a housekeeper, a sweater designer, and a school custodian. Today she lives in upstate New York and Florida with her husband, Akilla, and their dog, Phoebe. They have two grown children.